Santa Ana winds can bring disruptive impacts to daily life in Los Angeles and parts of southern California, but when coupled ...

The Santa Ana Winds are named after a Los Angeles-area ... an area of high pressure in the Great Basin, to the east of the Sierra Nevada range, the towering mountains that run up the eastern ...

This region experiences Santa Ana windstorms multiple times a year. As the wind flows over the Sierra Nevada and Santa Ana mountains, it drops from high elevation to sea level. The sinking air ...

Santa Ana winds, one of the nation's most notorious ... pressure builds over the Great Basin (the high plateau east of the Sierra Nevada), according to meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate ...

Santa Ana winds can bring disruptive impacts to daily ... where they descend over the inland Sierra mountains. As the air descends, it dries further and accelerates in speed.