Jan 7, 2025 · Get the latest on the status of campus operations, instruction and emergency plans for the Bruin community. UCLA facilities management and emergency operations have been taking necessary steps to mitigate the potentially destructive and life-threatening impacts of extreme Santa Ana winds. UCLA experts have called the weather event “one of the most powerful wind events of the season,” and ...

Jan 14, 2025 · Get the latest on campus operations, instruction and emergency plans for UCLA. As the Bruin community processes the impacts of last week’s fires and awaits the next expected round of Santa Ana winds, UCLA leaders hosted a town hall for faculty and staff on Jan. 13 to offer the latest information on campus and UCLA Health operations, as well as available resources for those affected by the fires.

6 days ago · UCLA atmospheric and oceanic sciences professor Suzanne Paulson details how to limit exposure to dangerous particulates. ... the Santa Ana winds have led to new fires flaring up across Los Angeles County. While many of the latter have been in areas of dense brush, resulting in wildfire smoke, the destruction of homes, businesses and various ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Southern California is facing its most extreme wind event in over a decade, fueling fast-moving wildfires like the Pacific Palisades Fire. ... UCLA wildfire research, Santa Ana winds fire risk, Extreme wind wildfire California, Wildfire evacuations SoCal, UCLA experts, UCLA research, UCLA climate experts explain growing wildfire threat.

Jan 13, 2025 · Given the extreme aridity and fuel abundance in the wildlands around Los Angeles, the hurricane-force Santa Ana winds that arrived on January 7 were the final ingredient in a perfect recipe for major wildfire development. Santa Ana winds occur episodically in coastal Southern California from roughly October through March (Rolinski et al. 2019 ...

2 days ago · 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. ... according to two different analyses from the University of California, Los Angeles, and World Weather Attribution, a collaboration of international ...

Jan 8, 2025 · UCLA facilities management and emergency operations have been taking necessary steps to mitigate the potentially destructive and life-threatening impacts of extreme Santa Ana winds.

Named after Southern California's Santa Ana Canyon and a fixture of local legend and literature, the Santa Ana is a blustery, dry and warm (often hot) wind that blows out of the desert.

6 days ago · From Swain’s discussion in his Jan. 22 Office Hours: More fire weather and risk after the rain: “I think this [rainy] period will very likely be a period of greatly reduced fire risk.Once we get back to the end of the first week in February, though, unless it rains again, we’re going to be at the mercy of the winds, because all it will take is one Santa Ana event to evaporate all of this ...

While the origin and cause of the Santa Ana winds are not in dispute, the origin of the name is. According to the most common and accepted explanation, the winds derive their name from the Santa Ana canyon of Orange County, south of Los Angeles and near the city of Santa Ana.