“Anything can happen” during a Santa Ana event, Raymond Chandler wrote in his 1938 short story Red Wind. Chandler’s bailiwick was the crime genre, and the Santa Ana winds were an augur of physical ...

The Santa Ana winds tend to cause the same corridors to burn over and over again. Experts say the region needs to adapt.

Pretty much everything about the human interaction with Los Angeles has brought us a war with nature we seem no longer to be ...

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...

Raymond Chandler ... "(T)he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los ...

Last week, intense Santa Ana winds gusted up to 80 to 100 mph in spots as the Palisades Fire raced through neighborhoods, killing at least 8 and destroying thousands of homes and other structures in ...

This time around, so many folks have posted the same Santa Ana and wildfire quotes to the point that the brilliant is ...

As the L.A. fires rage, we’re reminded of movies, books and songs that speak to the city’s love-hate relationship with the forces that shape it.

There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

was fueled in part by back-to-back Santa Ana winds. The Washington Post likened the weather pattern to "a giant hair dryer," and writers have long noted the effect the winds seem to have on residents ...