Santa Ana winds are a geographically specific type of wind that occur in Southern California known as katabatic winds. They are cold, dry, down-sloping winds that warm as they descend a mountain side.

Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains was placed under an updated wind advisory by the National Weather Service on Thursday ...

Santa Ana windstorms happen regularly in Southern California, but experts say the current winds are stronger than usual. These winds occur when a high-pressure system forms over the deserts of the ...

Jon Keeley, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

Santa Ana winds returned to San Diego County Wednesday evening, surging temperatures and prompting a wind advisory for much of the region. "The reason for the warmth, the ridge of high pressure ...

Languages: English. Parts of Southern California continue to battle extreme drought as wind advisories remain in place amid Santa Ana winds that could spur wildfires should they erupt. Newsweek ...

Weak Santa Ana winds Thursday and Friday will continue to warm us up and dry us out into the weekend. Winds will remain below advisory level with top gusts 25 miles per hour for mountains and ...

The Santa Ana winds that spread the fires with lightning speed blew with hurricane force. Although nothing can compare to the property damage — much less loss of life — caused by the wind ...

The agency had issued a "particularly dangerous" warning of extreme Santa Ana winds for Tuesday and Wednesday. Spot fires — which can happen when embers travel because of the wind gusts — have ...

And then there are lingering concerns the Santa Ana winds might kick up and turn a new brush fire into an inferno. Downtown Los Angeles figures to reach a near-record 86 degrees Wednesday ...