The strong winds fueling the devastating Southern California wildfires start in the Great Basin that includes Utah and Nevada ...

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds.

The ferocious wildfires turning the Los Angeles area into a raging inferno are being fueled by “hurricane force” Santa Ana ...

With high pressure building over the Great Basin (an area around Nevada, Utah and Idaho), Santa Ana winds are set to ...

The Santa Ana wind forecast for Southern California has worsened, and forecasters now expect to issue a red flag fire weather ...

Here’s what to know about the winds. The Santa Ana winds are the strong, dry and often warm winds that blow west from Nevada and Utah to Southern California. The winds occur in the colder months ...

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme weather warning of a life-threatening and destructive windstorm ...

The devastating fires across Southern California are being driven by the Santa Ana winds, as incredibly dry and windy ...

Another wave of Santa Ana winds arrive Saturday ... bumping into a ridge of high pressure settling over the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada, creating a "tight" pressure gradient that will produce ...

The windstorms occur when cold air gathers in the neighboring states of Nevada and Utah ... move down the Santa Ana and Sierra Nevada mountains and shoot through valleys, the winds compress ...