Santa Ana winds occur when air flows west from a region of high pressure over the dry Great Basin to lower pressure off the California coast, According to Accuweather.

Gusty Santa Ana winds are forecast to come and go over southern California in the next several days, at times further exacerbating the deadly and devastating wildfires across the region.. The ...

Following the devastating fires that expanded across areas of Los Angeles and Ventura counties over the last week and resulted in multiple fatalities, AccuWeather forecasters warn that another ...

Southern California's risk will come after. One of the changes we could see this year is an earlier start of offshore Santa Ana winds by late August or early September.

California could see up to 1.5 million acres burned this year, AccuWeather said. That'd be an increase from 2024 and the historical average.

AccuWeather predicted that California could see up to 1.5 million acres burned this year, which is up by about half a million acres from both last year and the historical average from 2001 to 2020.

The very strong winds that have created the extreme fire danger in Southern California continued on Wednesday morning. Wind gusts of 40 to 60 mph with even stronger gusts in the canyons and over ...

AccuWeather predicted that California could see up to 1.5 million acres burned this year, which is up by about half a million acres from both last year and the historical average from 2001 to 2020.