Answer: The Santa Ana winds have everything to do with weather. It starts with a high-pressure area over the Great Basin.

Jon Keeley, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread ...

Light to moderate Santa Ana winds will continue through Wednesday afternoon across Ventura and Los Angeles counties, according to the National Weather Service. There will be another increase in ...

Alerts for cold weather are in effect for nearly half of the U.S. population, running from the northern Plains to the Gulf Coast and the Rockies to the Southeast. The latest Santa Ana winds will ...

Thousands of homes burned in the span of a few days, starting Jan 7, 2025, in the Los Angeles area. AP Photo/Ethan Swope ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire whipped up by extreme winds swept through a Los Angeles ... 10:30 a.m., shortly after the start of a Santa Ana windstorm that the National Weather service warned ...

The best time to visit Santa Barbara is from March to May or from September to November. Temperatures are fairly mild year-round, hovering in the 60s and 70s, but traveling in early spring or fall ...

While it is a cold start to our Saturday with temperatures ... The good news is that the southwesterly winds the system brings in will rise our temperatures into the mid-30s for high temperatures.

The high winds will increase the wildfire risk in southwestern Oklahoma. Friday night, a cold front moves into the state. This will drop lows into the teens in the panhandle. Lows in central ...

Dangerously cold air is overhead Monday night. How cold our temperatures and wind chills will be here. Read more. PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS: The coldest air of winter, so far, will be ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Southern California is making the switch from red flag conditions to rainfall this weekend with showers, mountain snow and a big cool down, prompting concerns over debris ...

A cold front surged on Wednesday ... with highs later only reaching the 30s. We will see winds from the northwest all day, and they will be up to 25 mph. This will create a wind chill factor ...