Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ...

Fires driven by Santa Ana winds, the infamous gusts that howl in over the mountains to the city ... there — not dry weather, not dense vegetation and not the fire’s proximity to areas ...

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out ...

They were fanned by warm hurricane force Santa Ana Mountain winds, burning through tinder-dry vegetation and spreading rapidly into urban areas. "All the pieces were in place for a wildfire ...

Fanned by powerful Santa Ana mountain winds and burning through tinder-dry vegetation, the fires rapidly spread into urban areas. They eventually killed at least 28 people, more than 10,000 homes ...

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.

The Santa Anas can both create the conditions for deadly wildfires and fuel them once they are underway — drying out vegetation ... down the Santa Ana and Sierra Nevada mountains and shoot ...

And forecasters say another round of strong, gusty Santa Ana winds is expected ... and Southern California mountains. With the humidity remaining low and the vegetation in the region very dry ...

Chinooks, meanwhile, are the warm winds that come down the east side of the Rocky Mountains ... not just from vegetation, being blown by those Santa Ana winds a mile or two away, just spreading ...

Containing wildfires—never mind extinguishing them—in parched and windy conditions can be monstrously difficult. Dry vegetation is rocket fuel for blazes and wind both feeds the flames and spreads the ...