Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Holy shit thank you OP. I lived on the east coast and moved to AZ 4 years ago… thought I was done with this stuff. Literally this is the first I heard about it so thank you for getting the word out.
Shit. I have a post I've been holding onto about hurricane preparation. One moment, I'll post it.
This is like. Freakish. Due to the Coriolis Effect pushing northern hemisphere hurricanes west, and the lack of Gulf Stream warm water fuel, hurricanes are exceedingly rare on the west coast of North America.
The only tropical storm with hurricane-force winds believed to have hit Southern California came in October 1858, when a hurricane struck San Diego, according to a 2004 report in the American Meteorological Society.
Never, since scientific records of hurricanes started in 1949, has a storm with hurricane strength winds hit this far north on the west coast of the continent. We're looking at a once in a century event here. Or at least what used to be once in a century.
Ik who I'm talking to, this is Tumblr. East coast folks, do y'all remember Hurricane Irene, when we were youths? Remember how bad it was? That was a Category 3. Hilary is a Category 4, one below Katrina. On the west coast, where people are way more likely to be unprepared, and infrastructure unlikely to be built to withstand, hurricane strength winds or flooding.
This is going to be a catastrophe.
