The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning starting Monday for San Diego County's inland valleys and mountains.

Firefighters continue to fight fires in Los Angeles as strong winds returned to the region, spurring on a new fire near San Diego.

Nearly two weeks after the start of two of the most devastating wildfires to hit the Los Angeles area, Southern California is under an extreme fire risk warning again.

San Diego County has slipped back into severe drought conditions, with a new round of Santa Ana winds and critical fire weather conditions exacerbating the risk for wildfires to spread rapidly. NOAA is predicting below average rainfall for the Southern California region through the month of January.

Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow ...

Southern California is on high alert as the National Weather Service warned of a "life-threatening and destructive" windstorm in the Los Angeles area Tuesday. Why it matters: The threat is moving south Wednesday,

Forecasters say the moisture will do virtually nothing to tamp down the threat of wildfires in a region starving for rain.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A second day of ferocious winds were forecast for Tuesday in Southern California where firefighters remained on alert and extreme fire weather raised the risk of new wildfires two weeks after two major blazes still burning in the Los Angeles area sparked.

Forecasters say the third windstorm of January will focus much of its energy on the region during one of the driest periods on record.

Officials at San Diego Gas & Electric have cut the power to thousands of customers in remote East County as high winds began to blow on Monday night, with a red-flag warning not expiring until 10 p.m. on Tuesday.

Southern Californians are bracing for gusty winds and a heightened risk of wildfires, less than two weeks after the outbreak of deadly blazes that have killed at least 27 people and charred thousands of homes.