The winds fueling Southern California wildfires form when a high-pressure system develops over the Great Basin in Utah and ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to ...

Topography matters, too — treeless mountain peaks are typically windier without those trees, or buildings, to slow the winds. And different parts of Earth — water and land — heat from sunlight at ...

As they move down the Santa Ana and Sierra Nevada mountains and shoot through valleys, the winds compress -- creating a rise in their temperature and a drop in their relative humidity. With hot ...

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern ...

There's a growing risk that significant fire weather could return in Los Angeles and Ventura counties starting early next week.

As of January 13, close to 100,000 people are under evacuation orders. The population is in nothing less than panic.