The Santa Ana winds are driving these wildfires to spread even faster and are making it harder for firefighters to gain control. Here's what climate experts say about what they are observing.
Sheriff Robert Luna said 179,783 people are under evacuation orders due to the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and Lidia fires in Los Angeles County. Another 200,000 residents are under evacuation warnings.
The Santa Ana Winds are named after a Los Angeles-area mountain range, but the source of them actually comes from hundreds of ...
Here’s what experts say is turning Southern California’s speedy wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration that is defying ...
Jon Keeley, a research ecologist in California with the U.S. Geological Survey and adjunct professor at UCLA, explains what ...
Over the past couple of days, Southern California has been experiencing an extreme weather event – Santa Ana winds, reaching up to 100 mph in some areas, have fueled some of the worst wildfires in Los ...
Southern California, which has not seen rain in eight months, is now in 'severe drought' for the first time since 2022 as historically devastating wildfires ravage the region. Here's how the Bay Area ...
Los Angeles is reeling from the most destructive wildfires in its history, and firefighters are struggling to contain the ...
While calm winds and days of soaking rain are what fire-ravaged areas of Southern California desperately need, more rounds of wind are in store that will again cause the wildfire risk to surge, ...
Firefighters battled to control a series of major fires that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena, and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their ...
Meteorologist Taylor Stephenson explains the science behind the extreme weather conditions that are fueling these fires in this installment of "Weather Works." ...