The Madre Fire has more than doubled the size of California’s second-largest wildfire this year, as it races through the Los ...

Climate change and extreme temperatures, like the heat wave ravaging parts of the United States, fuel more destructive ...

As California braces for another wildfire season, forestry experts warn that decades of regulatory mismanagement — not ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on average, typically occurring ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on average, typically occurring ...

Santa Ana winds can cause fires to spread quickly, and extreme drought conditions mean the presence of dry fuels. A stock photo of a helicopter fighting a wildfire. Toa55/Getty What to Know ...

Then came powerful Santa Ana winds, gusting above 80 miles per hour. The result was more than 16,000 homes and buildings were destroyed after the fast-moving Eaton and Palisades fires exploded.

Once-in-a-decade super strong Santa Ana winds, a dry autumn that followed two very wet years that caused rapid growth in flammable chapparal and grass, hot weather, dry air and vulnerable houses ...

This suggests that human-caused climate change is helping to delay the end of drought conditions, thereby promoting an overlap with the Santa Ana wind season. Science News sponsorship position.

For as much as climate change influenced the Los Angeles wildfires, a few factors operate separately. For one, climate change doesn’t create Santa Ana winds.