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 ...

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

Raymond Chandler immortalized the hot, dry, deadly Santa Ana winds that same year in his short story "Red Wind." This year's California fires were not unpredictable. Quite the opposite.

All around, an ominous energy. Unsettling. Many Angelenos believe the Santa Ana winds rattle the psyche. Some writers, like L.A.’s Raymond Chandler, argue the gales can turn mild people murderous.

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

Wind data is as of Jan. 7 at 10 a.m. Pacific time By Raymond Zhong and Zach Levitt ... Fires driven by Santa Ana winds, the infamous gusts that howl in over the mountains to the city’s north ...

“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 ...

Apocalypse as a happy ending? Only in Los Angeles. It's an idea that's epicentral to the identity of the place.