Both Salt Lake City and Los Angeles can experience strong winds that fan flames, but Utah's winds are typically nothing like California's Santa Ana winds. The latter can last for days, which ...

Answer: The Santa Ana winds have everything to do with weather. It starts with a high-pressure area over the Great Basin. That’s a huge area, spanning much of Nevada, Utah and parts of ...

At this time, this Santa Ana wind event doesn’t look like it’ll be as extreme as the Jan. 7–8 event, when severe winds were forecast for a much wider area, including through the L.A. Basin ...

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as the landscape remains dangerously starved of rain, and as firefighters ...

The Santa Ana winds blow from dry areas inland toward the coast. The winds come from dry desert regions in Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Oregon, and become more dry as they pass down the mountains.

The Santa Ana winds, sometimes referred to as the "devil winds," arise at higher altitudes and blow down toward sea level. The strong, dry and often warm winds blow west from Utah and Nevada to ...

When the wind rushes into Southern California from the northeast, as it does during a Santa Ana, it's coming from Nevada and western Utah, over and between the mountains in between.

From 1950 to 2020, there were 3,219 Santa Ana wind days, and fires ignited on 12% of them. In this period there were 22,704 nonwind event days, and 12% of those days had ignitions. Winds ...

The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up, making it harder to fight Southern California wildfires. The winds typically start with a high-pressure system in the Great Basin, which includes Utah and ...

As the 23,700-acre (9,500-hectare) Palisades Fire and 14,000-acre Eaton Fire have raged around Los Angeles, fast-moving winds have exacerbated the situation, throwing hot embers into new patches ...

Now, the NWS has issued another PDS red flag warning that between 4 a.m. local time this Tuesday and noon on Wednesday dangerous so-called Santa Ana winds are coming back, albeit weaker than last ...

ALTADENA, CA – JANUARY 07: A wind-driven fire burns in the Eaton Canyon area on January 7, 2025 in Altadena, California. Santa Ana wind is fueling a brush fire in the Eaton Canyon area near ...