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Hurricane Hilary - SoCal Takes a Rare Hit

I hate hurricanes, ya'll be safe out there..
Years ago, my nephew and I were fishing for kings at the end of Pensacola beach pier when TS Bonnie rolled in..
We saw it coming, but by the time we made it to the 'safe' end of the pier, the the gulf was already coming up thru the boards we were walking on.. years later I was in Pensacola when Irma and Maria both flowed up.. Pensacola was spared, I was outside watching the edge of the storm clouds circulating past from north to south at a visually incredible rate.. I don't remember which of the two storms it was..

Milton address, but more Gulf Breeze area.. Garcon Point.. Blackwater/Escambia Bay
 
mfrench said:
They say that this is the first to hit the SoCal area,.....

Back in June '78, I grad'd from high school. That first weekend after that, we had a monster of a hurricane storm that blew up from Baja. But, it stalled and turned westward, and ended up spinning off of the south end of San Clemente Island. You could see this ominous black headwall outer edge of it spinning and all lit up with internal lightning.

My friend and I were both local surfers, and had surfed together for most of our lives. We decided to go hit the south side of the peninsula that we lived on, and, the waves were immense and perfect, and were lining up on the reef perfectly. They were what we called double and triple overhead waves, and were wrapping perfectly around the reef. It was the rare perfect day, and we were the only two out.
The wind and rain though,.... wow. The wind was offshore, hard and steady. The rain was pounding so hard that it was like a hard wall. But what happened with each wave was crazy. The wind held the face of the wave up, and when it broke, it feathered the edge of the wave, and, added an intense extra layer of suspended water. We we being hit by bucket loads of water just falling from the sky, both fresh and salt.
The tube rides that day,.... wow.
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I lived in San Diego from 1978 to 1988 and in January and February of 1980 there was major flooding throughout most of the area. There was no hurricane or tropical storm, just nearly non-stop rain for a few weeks. I believe that is the worst flooding in San Diego over the last 100 years.
 
jsisk said:
I lived in San Diego from 1978 to 1988 and in January and February of 1980 there was major flooding throughout most of the area. There was no hurricane or tropical storm, just nearly non-stop rain for a few weeks. I believe that is the worst flooding in San Diego over the last 100 years.
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I moved from New York to Los Angeles in February of 1980 to get away from extreme weather, but there was so much rain that month. I wondered, whoever came up with the slogan "it never rains in Southern California" was lying. :no:
 
The forecast on Friday for my area was 80 mph gusts today but that's been revised to 40 mph so that's good. It didn't rain much last night and now rain has stopped. Forecast is for about 3" today which is a lot for the low desert. I mean, that's nearly a year's rain in one day. Right now it doesn't look like that's going to happen though.

I didn't get to the grocery store until yesterday afternoon and I expected the shelves to be wiped clean but not so. Got a few cans of tuna, bread and a bunch of water, no problem.

I'm about 130 miles from the ocean, west or south.

Murray
 
We get the weather "oh my goodness" reports all the time here n SW Louisiana......1 of 10 may be as terrible as they say. Been here for quite a while and very few have amounted to much where I am located.
 
djwhy60 said:
We get the weather "oh my goodness" reports all the time here n SW Louisiana......1 of 10 may be as terrible as they say. Been here for quite a while and very few have amounted to much where I am located.
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I've noticed a definite uptake in "drastic and dire" weather prognostication in the past few years. And in our local stations, they go on and on endlessly about what actions we should take: "Make sure to wear a sweater! Take an umbrella! Don't drive through any water! Stock up on water! Keep your pets inside! Bes sure to gas up your car!"
 
eiraved said:
Absolutely, and others as well.
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And I get to turn my sprinklers off for at least a couple of days. Longer if we get the soaking we've been promised by the weather prognosticators.

Did I mention it is muggy? Yeah, it's muggy. Not East Coast muggy (used to live in Southern Maryland), but it's muggy-ish. ;)
 
DesertRatt said:
I've noticed a definite uptake in "drastic and dire" weather prognostication in the past few years. And in our local stations, they go on and on endlessly about what actions we should take: "Make sure to wear a sweater! Take an umbrella! Don't drive through any water! Stock up on water! Keep your pets inside! Bes sure to gas up your car!"
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My sister, brother and sister-in-law from NYC, follow those "drastic and dire" weather prognosticators faithfully. Everything you mentioned is what they mentioned to me.
"OMG, you need to do ___ and ___ and ___ (fill in the blanks), disaster is approaching". I finally told them that the ark is almost complete...:no:
 
DesertRatt said:
I've noticed a definite uptake in "drastic and dire" weather prognostication in the past few years. And in our local stations, they go on and on endlessly about what actions we should take: "Make sure to wear a sweater! Take an umbrella! Don't drive through any water! Stock up on water! Keep your pets inside! Bes sure to gas up your car!"
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The weather guy, person, went from being a meteorologist to being 'talent'.
 
Erik Tracy said:
And I get to turn my sprinklers off for at least a couple of days. Longer if we get the soaking we've been promised by the weather prognosticators.

Did I mention it is muggy? Yeah, it's muggy. Not East Coast muggy (used to live in Southern Maryland), but it's muggy-ish. ;)
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So, you can now breathe through your nose for a while. :thumbsup:
 
First things first, here's hoping whatever transpires weather wise that you all stay safe and fingers crossed not too much damage, flooding etc.

"Weather" is BIG business with FEAR mongering as its sole basis with the Weather Channel being the major purveyor and local affiliates following suit.

One of the local affiliates goes by "Severe Weather Team 11"

We get all 4 seasons in my neck of the woods and it's comical sometimes when local forecasts are given.

Several years back both nationally and locally they started using the term "Polar Vortex" it sounded/sounds ominous and I remember folks breathlessly talking about it and that it's supposed to be really bad.

Then a funny thing happened a well respected, retired local meteorologist with 30yr+ under his belt was interviewed and said basically it was nonsense as it's whats known and had been known for decades as a "Cold Front" the jet stream dips, colder Canadian maybe even Artic Polar air follows.

Some other ones I get a chuckle out of are "Bomb Cyclones" which usually occur in Winter along North Eastern coast. They used to be called Nor'Easters
 
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