Posted on Aug 18, 2023
Hilary could be the first tropical storm to hit California in more than 80 years
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Hurricane Hilary, now a powerful Category 4 storm churning off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, is making its way towards the Pacific coast. It's projected to hit Southern California as a tropical storm — the first since 1939 — by Sunday night and into Monday, bringing high winds and the potential for dangerous flooding.
"Life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flooding likely over much of Baja California and Southern California this weekend and early next week," the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a Friday afternoon advisory.
The NHC forecasts Hilary will make landfall in Baja on Sunday as a hurricane but lose strength as it makes its way north. It's expected to hit Southern California as a tropical storm as early as Sunday. Hilary's monsoonal rains will cause flash, urban and arroyo flooding with the potential for "significant impacts," the NHC said.
Hurricane Hilary, now a powerful Category 4 storm churning off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, is making its way towards the Pacific coast. It's projected to hit Southern California as a tropical storm — the first since 1939 — by Sunday night and into Monday, bringing high winds and the potential for dangerous flooding.
"Life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flooding likely over much of Baja California and Southern California this weekend and early next week," the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a Friday afternoon advisory.
The NHC forecasts Hilary will make landfall in Baja on Sunday as a hurricane but lose strength as it makes its way north. It's expected to hit Southern California as a tropical storm as early as Sunday. Hilary's monsoonal rains will cause flash, urban and arroyo flooding with the potential for "significant impacts," the NHC said.
Hilary could be the first tropical storm to hit California in more than 80 years
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Been on the receiving (and evacuating) end of Irma and Dorian. Most But not all Floridians know how to prepare and protect against a CAT 1-5, not so in SoCal.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
MT PINATUBO ERUPTION JUNE 1991
MT PINATUBO DAMAGES AROUND SUBIC BAY AREA
CPT (Join to see) The Only Typhoon that Involved Me was Yunya That Struck at the Same time as Mt Pinatubo Erupted, Just Sucked for the Residents of Luzon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQzGjGKdGvQ&t=157s
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Recall seeing the Pinatubo nightmare on the news. Yes, awful for the residents.
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In the Path of a Killer Volcano: Mt. Pinatubo
The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo is about to blow big. Is there enough time to evacuate the hundreds of thousands in its raging path? Stay with the scientists...
CPT (Join to see) - Got Me My Presidential JMUC, There's got to be an Easier Way. Made a Bloody Mess Out of Back of My Hands. Shoveling Ash Off USS Arkansas CGN-41! Got Me My First Salt Water Shower to Remove all the Volcanic Ash before they'd let Me back inside the Skin of the Ship. When I Got to Actually Conduct "Emergency Destruction" for Most of the Material Left Over from Naval Security Group (NSA) Philippines. I Prefer watching S**t Like that on the TV. Being There Sucked Big Time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZX74ifvVw&t=237s
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Excellent getting a Presidential. All I got from the TMI cleanup was a t-shirt, some photo-ops and (fortunately) clean dosimetry readings.
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..."The only known hurricane to hit the West Coast grazed San Diego on Oct. 2, 1858, with winds as high as 75 mph, just above the threshold for a hurricane.
The storm will continue moving north and inland from Southern California. It will drench parts of southwestern Arizona and southern Nevada with 2 to 6 inches of monsoonal rains. The NWS issued a flood watch for the Phoenix and Las Vegas areas from Saturday morning through Monday afternoon. As much as 10 inches — more than either area gets in an average year — could come down in localized areas, with potential of widespread flooding across the region."
..."The only known hurricane to hit the West Coast grazed San Diego on Oct. 2, 1858, with winds as high as 75 mph, just above the threshold for a hurricane.
The storm will continue moving north and inland from Southern California. It will drench parts of southwestern Arizona and southern Nevada with 2 to 6 inches of monsoonal rains. The NWS issued a flood watch for the Phoenix and Las Vegas areas from Saturday morning through Monday afternoon. As much as 10 inches — more than either area gets in an average year — could come down in localized areas, with potential of widespread flooding across the region."
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