Hurricane Hilary Hitting SoCal

[Anonymous]

Now a Cat 4 with landfall somewhere in southern california. Last time something like this happened was 1939.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

Current model show 3-4” of rain from San Diego to Ventura. The interior elevations are showing 6-10”. It’s going to be bad.

Palm Spring is forecast for 3 days of rain with 3-5” in the lower elevations. The higher elevation around will get a lot more. They have had these before and it is always catastrophic flooding.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/145329.shtml?rainqpf#contents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

Current model show 3-4” of rain from San Diego to Ventura. The interior elevations are showing 6-10”. It’s going to be bad.

Palm Spring is forecast for 3 days of rain with 3-5” in the lower elevations. The higher elevation around will get a lot more. They have had these before and it is always catastrophic flooding.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/145329.shtml?rainqpf#contents

+1

The flooding is going to be bad.

[Anonymous]

Flash flood is what you need to worry about. No greens out there.

[Anonymous]

We are in LA and flying to Montana on Monday morning. I can't find a good website to figure out how it's going to be at 8am PST, or when the worst of the storm will hit out here (bc trying to figure out if our flight will be cancelled)

Does anyone here have a website rec?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

and you understand that 1” of rain is a huge amount, right?

[Anonymous]

All bets are off with high temperatures of water and air never before seen fueling this storm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

and you understand that 1” of rain is a huge amount, right?

This is so odd that 1" is considered a lot. I get it, but still. Completely odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

and you understand that 1” of rain is a huge amount, right?

This is so odd that 1" is considered a lot. I get it, but still. Completely odd.

1" of rain = 13" of snow.

It's a lot of water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

and you understand that 1” of rain is a huge amount, right?

This is so odd that 1" is considered a lot. I get it, but still. Completely odd.

1" of rain = 13" of snow.

It's a lot of water.

It's not a lot of water in most places. Certainly not in DC. We routinely get 1"/hour, and storms that drop as much as 3" (or more!) in one hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

and you understand that 1” of rain is a huge amount, right?

This is so odd that 1" is considered a lot. I get it, but still. Completely odd.

1" of rain = 13" of snow.

It's a lot of water.

It's not a lot of water in most places. Certainly not in DC. We routinely get 1"/hour, and storms that drop as much as 3" (or more!) in one hour.

Sometimes we do have fatalities though - a few years ago, someone drowned in a garden-level apartment in close-in MD, and a few days ago, 10 dogs drowned in a doggy daycare in NW DC. And do you remember that photo of a businessman in his suit, standing on top of his car on Canal Road, waiting to be rescued by boat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s going to “hit” as a minor tropical storm. 1-3” of rain in SD and LA…

and you understand that 1” of rain is a huge amount, right?

This is so odd that 1" is considered a lot. I get it, but still. Completely odd.

1" of rain = 13" of snow.

It's a lot of water.

It's not a lot of water in most places. Certainly not in DC. We routinely get 1"/hour, and storms that drop as much as 3" (or more!) in one hour.

They are forecasting 10-12 inches over the mountain and the inland areas. LA gets like 14 inches a year. They have a lot of tall hills and low areas that will flood. Palm Springs gets 5 inch a year. Palm Spring is surrounded by 7-8,000’ mountains. This will wash out bridges and roads, create landslides, etc.

That have had these before in the 1800’s and it cause a lot of problem with little population. Some areas will form huge lakes.

[Anonymous]

Yeah Palm Springs will be affected. LA area not so much. I live here and it’s like any other day, maybe slightly more quiet. But no one is doing much prep. Many of us already are prepared for emergencies.