A rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning has been issued for Southern California as a powerful and potentially damaging Santa Ana wind event is expected.
After a weekend of reprieve allowing fire teams to continue making progress battling the deadly infernos burning in Los Angeles County, Southern California now faces another round of fire-fueling Santa Ana Winds Monday.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has deployed fire engines, water-dropping aircraft and hand crews across the region—to enable a rapid response if a new fire does break out, according to The Associated Press.
Thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. The two largest fires, the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire near Pasadena, remain active. One of the latest, the Hughes Fire in the Castaic area, has prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people.
The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating ... according to the weather service office in Los Angeles. Gusts of 60 to 80 mph will race across the mountains and foothills of Los Angeles ...
(KWTX) -One of the major factors that made the January Los Angeles fires so devastating was the very strong Santa Ana winds. This week we are talking with Alex Tardy, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in San Diego,
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How the Santa Ana Winds Fuel Fires in Los AngelesWith gusts reaching over 93 miles per hour, these winds are the main culprits behind the fierce spread of fires in Los Angeles.
The Santa Anas are expected to be most powerful Monday night into Tuesday. Fire services across the region say they are ready.
The number of deaths from the wildfires that destroyed entire communities in the Los Angeles area in January 2025 has risen to 29, the county medical examiner’s office said.
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Study says climate change made conditions that fed Los Angeles wildfires more likely, more intense
Climate change made the L.A. wildfires 35 percent more likely
A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and Eaton fires.
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Climate change made ferocious LA wildfires more likely: study
Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable drought
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Climate change primed LA to burn — catastrophicallyA new study finds that the region's extremely dry and hot conditions were about 35 percent more likely because of climate change.
Climate change did not cause the Los Angeles wildfires, nor the now infamous Santa Ana winds. But its fingerprints were all over the recent disaster, says a large new study from World Weather Attribution.
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