The Santa Anas are expected to be most powerful Monday night into Tuesday. Fire services across the region say they are ready ...

A fire north of a jail complex in Castaic has triggered evacuations in L.A. County, even as Southern California hopes for ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...

Forecasters warn that dangerous winds will buffet Southern California for at least two more days as new wildfires broke out ...

A small amount of rain is in the forecast for the region beginning late Friday through early Saturday, a much anticipated ...

The two most massive fires have not spread significantly in days, and firefighters are — slowly and steadily — gaining ground ...

Jonathan Wolfe Amy Graff and Claire Moses Forecasters warned that severe winds starting Monday night ... is so overwhelming,” such as during a Santa Ana wind event, she said.

The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up again this week ... “Concurrently, a low-pressure system often forms off the coast of Southern California or over the Pacific Ocean. The pressure difference ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and the nerves to flash point." The windstorms occur ...

But by January, the threat feels less palpable, because the landscape is usually wet. San Francisco International Airport, for instance, has received 107% of the year’s average annual rainfall.

Specialist teams have begun to look for more people killed, as officials insist scale of disaster not down to "lack of preparation".

Another wave of Santa Ana winds arrive ... near 74 degrees and southeast winds 5 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph during the day.