In the hours before fierce Santa Ana winds rushed through the canyons of Los Angeles, igniting homes and claiming lives, we felt Diablo winds here. But they just created ripples in mud puddles.

We generally refer to those winds in Southern California as the Santa Ana Winds, although the National ... they are called Diablo Winds. In 2017, across Napa and Sonoma Counties, we saw Diablo ...

After restoring electricity on Thursday afternoon to all customers in rural areas impacted by public safety shutoffs, strong Santa Ana winds overnight ... including Alpine, El Cajon, Chula Vista ...

California had a really wet year last year because of the strong El Niño event. They had heavy amounts of ... time provided a lot of fuel for wildfire growth. Then the strong Santa Ana winds blowing ...

The result will be arid conditions and strong gusts in typical locations for Santa Ana ... El Cajon. Several of the ongoing fires are also contained within that region. Additional alerts for winds ...

We saw this with the Black Summer fires in 2019–20, which followed the 2018–19 El Niño. The Santa Ana winds are a natural phenomenon that typically occur during the southern California autumn ...

tends to see high winds in the spring and fall known as the Diablo winds. Southern California’s Santa Ana winds often arise in the winter months. “This is not a typical Santa Ana, but this is ...