# Why no hurricanes in California?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-hurricanes-in-california/371497>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 5, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-hurricanes-in-california/371497 "2006-09-05T13:20:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-hurricanes-in-california/371497/21 "2006-09-05T23:28:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Enola Straight]  
How much do the Sierra moutains provide an atmospheric barrier to cyclonic wind action?  
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Quite a bit as far as surface winds are concerned. However, the remnants of Pacific hurricanes with stron winds north of the Los Angeles basin are virtually non-existent.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-hurricanes-in-california/371497/22 "2006-09-05T23:58:58Z")

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[QUOTE=Phase42]  
Funny story from my dad: His aunts moved away from Washington to get away from the earthquakes. To do this, they moved to Florida. I guess they thought hurricanes were safer 😉

Right now, as happens almost every late summer, the whole Wenatchee (WA) Valley is filled with smoke from a forest fire many miles away. Makes bicycling unpleasant, let me tell you!  
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So the night of the Landers earthquake I met some ladies escorting a bunch of young girls that were from New Orleans out to California for a dance thing. Recital? Contest? I don’t recall.  
Anyway they were buying supplies to hit the road due to the earthquake. I 'splained that it was over, but they were having none of it. I offered my opinion that hurricanes were worse, but they insisted that earthquakes were much worse than any hurricane.  
I wonder if they still feel that way?

Yeah smoke can be a bitch, but smoke won’t burn my house down.

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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-hurricanes-in-california/371497/23 "2006-09-06T01:10:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Phase42]  
when I was a little boy in the early '70s.  
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To paraphrase Robert Benchley in _Fair (Enough) Harvard_ (I think). For some reason statements like this infuriate me. Nobody could possible have been a little boy in the early '70’s. The years to be a little boy were the late '20’s. 😉

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-hurricanes-in-california/371497/24 "2006-09-06T04:03:22Z")

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[QUOTE=David Simmons]  
To paraphrase Robert Benchley in _Fair (Enough) Harvard_ (I think). For some reason statements like this infuriate me. Nobody could possible have been a little boy in the early '70’s. The years to be a little boy were the late '20’s. 😉  
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How about I rephrase it like so:

“In the early 1970s, when I was thankfully way too young to be drafted …”  
😃

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