Hurricane Hilary Hits Category 4; First Tropical Storm Watch for California in History

Breitbart ^ | 08/18/2023 | Hurricane Hilary reached Category 4 status on Friday morning, and the National Hurricane Center issu

[ridesthemiles]

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[rdl6989]

Sharknado!

[fhayek]

This may be the first time Hilary blows more than Monica...

[EvilCapitalist]

Only from 6 feet under. Ben Franklin died in 1790.

[jacknhoo]

1858 category 1.

[LuxAerterna]

Greasy Newscum must be overjoyed. The clapping seal media will use this to spend the next month blabbering about climate change.

[Fiji Hill]

Every few years, a tropical storm brings rain, but our last hurricane was Category 1 that struck in September 1939. It caused a lot of damage and a few deaths.

[bigbob]

Would be appropriate if Hollywood got wiped out by Hilary.

[Peter ODonnell]

Somebody asked earlier, typhoon is a name used for storms that form west of the International Date Line in the western Pacific, the storms in central Pacific around the hawaiian islands and in the eastern Pacific near Mexico are called hurricanes. Storms in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and in the South Pacific are called cyclones. There have only been one or two in the South Atlantic, those are also called hurricanes.

The big windstorm in the Pacific Northwest on Columbus Day of 1962 was the remnants of hurricane Freda from the central Pacific. Sometimes remnants of typhoons also reach western North America, usually in October or November.

[StAnDeliver]

Straight out of NOAA's own records:

[StAnDeliver]

You would put people in stocks for this and force them to recant in the public square, and it worked for 200 years.

[Iron Munro]

It will never match the real Hillary’s body count.....

[DoughtyOne]

Smile, oh I think there will be better ones today, but I do
appreciate the nice comment.

[RetiredTexasVet]

That proves it ... caused by Climate Change Conspiracy Hoax ...Except for those 8 anomalies this has never happened in the last 150,000 years.

[BushCountry]

Nice size. Should bring a decent amount of flooding. I doubt Cal is ready for anything, the state is so screwed up.

[Overtaxed]

As long as there are no sharknadoes.

[rktman]

Expecting some rain up in our area from it. Hope it doesn’t smell like boiled cabbage. 😳😂👍

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember the Columbus Day storm from my childhood. I wonder if you still see flat-topped evergreen trees around Portland? Lots of them had their tops snapped off by that storm, and it was a common sight for a long time.

[DownInFlames]

I hope it floods all of SOCAL. On the good side, it will fill up Lake Meade.

[napscoordinator]

Yes for the area. But California had a hurricane in 1936 just not this track.