Southern California will continue to face "dangerous fire weather conditions" including strong Santa Ana winds and extremely ...

A rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning has been issued for Southern California as a powerful and potentially ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...

Katabatic winds? Adiabatic compression? Time for a thermodynamics lesson! The record lack of rain has also made this Santa Ana event different.

Just a few years after the ozone hole was detected via satellite, the industrialized nations of the world, meeting in ...

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

Santa Ana winds, which are high-speed winds that blow from the mountains to the coast in California, could spread these devastating blazes further. The Rocky Mountains will experience a strong ...

This process is what is thermodynamically known as katabatic wind, but in the specific case of Southern California is referred to as the Santa Ana winds. As the air descends the Transverse Ranges ...