Hurricane Hilary which has formed south of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula could become the first tropical storm in more than 80 years to make landfall in Southern California according to the United States National Weather Service.

Published 1 year ago

In an Advisory for Hurricane Hilary, NOAA’s Hurricane Center said hurricane conditions were expected along the west-central coast of the Baja California Peninsula Saturday night and into Sunday.

Tropical storm conditions were expected to being Sunday (August 20) in portions of the southwestern United States within the Tropical Storm Warning area.

The storm would bring the potential for isolated tornadoes across portions of Southern California, in addition to life-threatening surf and rip current conditions along the beaches of Southern California.

Hurricane Hilary strengthened to a Category 4 storm but has since been downgraded to a Category 2, forecasters said.

No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since September 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service.

Ahead of the storm’s impact Nancy Ward, director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services described Hurricane Hilary as “one of the most devastating storms that we’ve had hit California in more than a decade.”

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• Related News:
• National Hurricane Center – Hurricane Hilary Key Messages
• California Braces for Rare and Dangerous Storm (NBC News)
• Hurricane Hilary Prompts Historical Storm Warning for California (CNN News)

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Related Links:

• National Hurricane Center
• Zoom Earth Weather Maps
• Yale Climate Connections
• Frontiers in Earth Science

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