The airflow and pressure push this air west, toward the California Coast. Here, it encounters smaller mountain ranges, including the Santa Ana Mountains east and south of Los Angeles. Between these ...

Extreme fires broke out around Los Angeles, California, on 7 January. Fanned by powerful Santa Ana mountain winds and burning through tinder-dry vegetation, the fires rapidly spread into urban areas.

Extreme fires broke out around Los Angeles, California, on 7 January. Fanned by powerful Santa Ana mountain winds and burning through tinder-dry vegetation, the fires rapidly spread into urban areas.

As high-pressure systems move east to west over the Santa Ana Mountain range, wind is forced down where it’s compressed and warms up. Janice Coen, a project scientist at the National Center ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation warnings.

The wind could gust up 80 mph on the coastal slopes and canyons in the San Bernardino and Santa Ana Mountains ... social media that despite the first sign of fire at 6:10 p.m., the first ...

The Palisades fire has burned almost 24,000 acres through the Pacific Palisades and into the Santa Monica Mountains. The burn area covers several popular hiking spots, including Temescal Canyon ...

Spanning roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Cambodian-Thai border, the 60,000-hectare (148,300-acre) Samlout Multiple Use Area is part of the greater Cardamom Mountain Range and straddles the ...

The city was placed under yet another red flag warning Monday as the Santa Ana winds picked up their ferocious speeds and continued into Tuesday, with gusts on the dry mountains blowing between 80 ...