In addition to fires, earthquakes, blizzards, mudslides, Santa Ana winds, the occasional tornado, and floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
California can boast a hurricane warning, fleeting as it was. The hurricane warning has devolved into a tropical storm warning and will likely lead to mudslides and flooding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not sure how fires would stand up to this amount of rain but we could still get a few tornadoes out of this too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My family in Florida is laughing their butts off. They were snickering about how the news was portraying this Hurricane. They saw it was a Category 4 and thought perhaps there was some danger so they called or texted to ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I pointed out that this was not the first hurricane I\u2019d seen, it\u2019s not even the first I\u2019ve seen in California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the hurricanes roll up the Gulf of California, or they come from the Pacific, cross the Baja peninsula and die in Mexico\u2019s desert region. Their remnants then make their way north into AZ, NM, or TX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rare hurricane that reaches the top of the Gulf of California degrades rapidly from hurricane, to tropical storm, to just a lot of rain as it makes its way across the desert and dumps a lot of moisture across southern California. Sometimes the rain gets to NV, AZ and UT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, it\u2019s no big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Storm formerly known as Hurricane Hillary. Is unusual because it didn\u2019t roll into the gulf of California. Instead it\u2019s heading up the Pacific side of Baja. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It doesn\u2019t matter too much though. The Pacific starts cooling down pretty rapidly as you go North. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hurricanes typically like warm water and get their energy from it. That\u2019s why most of the hurricanes on the East coast tend to form near the equator and then swing north through the Caribbean. Warm shallow seas provide a lot of energy. Or so I\u2019ve been told by friends who know a lot more about weather than I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With all this information in my head and looking to the South, there is an 8000 Ft. Mountain between me and the storm. I figured Hillary would fall apart into a tropical storm by the time it got to San Diego and we\u2019d just get a lot of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of this morning that appears to be holding true. I\u2019ll have to wait and see this evening if the predicted wind will kick up. The rain might also present a bit of a problem but honestly I think I\u2019m in pretty good shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n