A rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning has been issued for Southern California as a powerful and potentially damaging Santa Ana wind event​ is expected.

Southern California will continue to face "dangerous fire weather conditions" including strong Santa Ana winds and extremely low humidity through later this week, forecasters said Tuesday.

The PDS warning remains in effect until 3 p.m. for significant portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The NWS said northeast to east Santa Ana winds could reach up to 70 mph in mountain ...

THOSE SANTA ANA WINDS. I MEAN, AT TIMES THEY’VE HAD ... Weather Service calls this a “Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS),” which is issued only for rare situations during intense ...

Previous PDS red flag warnings were issued ahead of the Mountain and Franklin fires late last year in reference to incoming Santa Ana winds at the time. According to the New York Times ...

During the first week of November last year, as Santa Ana winds fueled the Mountain Fire northwest of Los Angeles, the National Weather Service issued a PDS warning. Forecasters called the threat ...

(KWTX) -One of the major factors that made the January Los Angeles fires so devastating was the very strong Santa Ana winds.

But the most serious red flag conditions — known as PDS, for potentially dangerous ... A brush fire pushed by intense Santa Ana winds threatened homes in the Pacific Palisades area of Los ...

PDS Red Flag Warnings are for the extreme of ... Unlike this week’s once-in-a-generation winds, which shifted the usual path of the Santa Ana Winds toward more populated areas and fueled the ...

Southern California is facing fierce fires fueled by the Santa Ana winds, which threaten homes and put firefighters to the ...

A new fire has broken out in Southern California as firefighters tackle multiple deadly wildfires engulfing the state.

For the now-expired PDS warning, forecasters had warned of "powerful and damaging" Santa Ana winds, saying gusts could reach up to 50 to 70 mph in some areas and up to 100 mph in other parts of ...