This region experiences Santa Ana windstorms multiple times a year. As the wind flows over the Sierra Nevada and Santa Ana mountains, it drops from high elevation to sea level. The sinking air ...

Santa Ana winds, one of the nation's most notorious ... builds over the Great Basin (the high plateau east of the Sierra Nevada), according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather ...

Here’s what to know about the winds. The Santa Ana winds are the strong, dry and often warm winds that blow west from Nevada and Utah to Southern California. The winds occur in the colder months ...

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire ... winds that occur commonly in winter, blowing out of Nevada and Utah and into southwestern California.