Apparently the eighth named storm of the year is named Hilary. I hadn’t been aware that hurricanes were a thing in California. The question I really have though is what affect will this have on the presidential election?
Hard to lock up a hurricane 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/weather/tropical-storm-hilary-thursday/index.html
Hilary is expected to weaken significantly before it reaches Southern California and parts of the Southwest, but could potentially bring significant impacts to these areas in the form of heavy rain and flooding.
They really, really should have saved that name for a hurricane aimed at Palm Beach in Florida.
Yeah, this atypical; California typically gets tropical storms or remnants. According to Stefanie Sullivan of the National Weather Service, this could be the first to hit CA since 1939.
In case you’re not aware: Pacific storms and Atlantic storms have different lists of names.
I wasn’t…I figured all storms names got pulled from one list.
Still, a guy can dream.
Wrong coast.
Here are the hurricane names for 2023
Atlantic hurricane names (season runs from June 1 to November 30) are: Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harold, Idalia, Jose, Katia, Lee, Margot, Nigel, Ophelia, Philippe, Rina, Sean, Tammy, Vince and Whitney.
Eastern North Pacific hurricane names (season runs from May 15 to November 30) are: Adrian, Beatriz, Calvin, Dora, Eugene, Fernanda, Greg, Hilary, Irwin, Jova, Kenneth, Lidia, Max, Norma, Otis, Pilar, Ramon, Selma, Todd, Veronica, Wiley, Xina, York and Zelda.
If you’re interested, you can view those names, and names for upcoming years, at the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
I’m not sure if this is going to work. How do you embed an image from google drive in a board post?
But I can dream too.
They’re not. At least recently. The cold upwelling of the California Current usually knocks storms like this down, but with the current warm ocean water in the eastern Pacific, it looks like it’s possible now. Wildfires in Hawaii and hurricane remnants hitting California - who woulda thunk?
They’re on a 6 year rotation unless the name gets retired/replaced, e.g. Andrew, Hugo, Ike, Katrina, etc. Unfortunately, Hilary isn’t on the Atlantic list, so it won’t happen unless they change the system.
On that side of the world, we had Hurricane Don a few weeks ago but it was a fish storm and didn’t impact land.
But if you want to see potential upcoming names and the 6 year rotation for both Atlantic and Pacific storms, here’s the NOAA/National Hurricane Center site:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
Also, here’s a shameless plug for the Eyewall. It’s a site run by Eric Berger who started up a no-hype, no nonsense Houston area weather site (Space City Weather) which led to a similarly styled spinoff Hurricane news site:
I’m looking at the local forecast for the South Bay and they are showing rain (starting Sunday, but I can believe it might actually show up earlier), but no real increase in winds (in fact, slightly lower wind speeds on Sun/Mon). So probably not exactly a hurricane hitting the west coast as implied by the headline in the OP’s link.
The forecasting has it as a hurricane when it makes landfall, but that’s projected to be in Baja. By the time it reaches California, the winds shouldn’t be that bad.
Agree. But, a day of steady rain in CA in August?
Yeah, it’s been a funny month. We’ve already had rain in the early morning this week. And it’s been incredibly humid in the morning the past couple of weeks.
This might mean a double hatch for ca. quail!
I am concerned with the risk of dry storms. Lightening with no rain caused havoc along the coast range a couple years ago. If it’s gonna rain, let it rain - there is no try!
Getting my house knocked down by Gert, Nigel, or Irwin would feel like adding insult to injury.
They are predicting rain in central Arizona. I’m really hoping they are right.
So now in addition to Earthquakes and wildfires we have hurricanes. Florida’s got nothing on us.
BTW, the syntax of that article is really strange. Could it be AI generated text?