The common thread between hurricanes and wildfires? Increasingly strong winds - Hurricane-force winds have major destructive power that can turn bad situations worse ...

The advisory warned that west-to-northwest winds would blow from 40 to 55 mph, with gusts reaching 65 mph, which is equivalent to tropical storm strength. A stock photo of palm trees blowing in ...

a day after a powerful storm brought hurricane-force winds that downed power lines, damaged trees, forced more than a dozen planes to divert, and caused a pedestrian bridge over a highway to ...