Jan 9, 2025 · A 2023 study found from 1971 to 2021, human-caused climate change contributed to a +172% increase in burned areas in California, with a +320% increase from 1996 to 2021. In the coming decades, a further increase in annual forest burned areas is …

Jun 18, 2021 · Until recently, the future of the Santa Ana winds was thought to be one of the few good-news stories of climate change. Scientists had predicted rapid inland warming would weaken one of the winds' primary drivers and reduce their frequency.

Jan 29, 2025 · Then came powerful Santa Ana winds, gusting above 80 miles per hour. ... The impact of climate change on Southern California's rainfall is another challenging question. California saw a wet winter ...

Jan 12, 2025 · Santa Ana winds are a natural part of California’s climate pattern, and usually blow from October to January. “Winter weather patterns allow high pressure to build near the surface of the Great Basin, which then interacts with low-pressure air over the Pacific,” Rose Schoenfeld, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard ...

Jan 9, 2025 · There’s no sure link between Santa Ana winds — gusts from the east that come down the mountains, gain speed and hit the coast — to human-caused climate change, said Daniel Swain, climate scientist for the California Institute for Water Resources.

Jan 13, 2025 · We are also hard pressed to name a mechanism whereby a warming climate would favor development of such an extreme Santa Ana event, and indeed the small body of research done so far suggests that climate change is generally associated with somewhat weaker Santa Ana winds in a warmer world (Abel et al. 2011, Guzman-Morales and Gershunov 2019 ...

Abstract We downscale Santa Ana winds (SAWs) from eight global climate models (GCMs) and validate key aspects of their climatology over the historical period. We then assess SAW evolution and behavior through the 21st century, paying special attention to …

Jan 9, 2025 · Each year California experiences the Santa Ana winds, usually in the cooler months between September and May. Sometimes called the 'devil winds', the Santa Ana winds have fuelled some of California's worst fires. These hot, dry blasts originate over the deserts of Utah and Nevada and blow across to southern California.

Oct 26, 2024 · Will Climate Change Affect the Winds? A 2019 study observed that the frequency of Santa Ana winds has decreased in the last twenty years, due to climate shifts. In the early and late parts of the Santa Ana’s season, there are fewer winds than in the 20 th century.

Jan 17, 2025 · Many factors, such as strong Santa Ana winds and urban planning decisions, played into the recent destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area. But the evidence is clear that climate change ...