Hurricane Kay in California?

[question everything]

With a year worth of rain?

Hoping for the best

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-kay-adds-to-most-unusual-and-extreme-weather-week-for-california-183553133.html

After days of record-breaking heat and the eruption of several new wildfires, Californians in the southern part of the state are bracing for the potential impacts of Hurricane Kay, a system that is expected to bring strong winds and more than a year's worth of rainfall to some areas over 36 hours.

While the hurricane is forecast to make landfall in Mexico's Baja California before being downgraded to a tropical storm and spinning for days off the California coast, its impacts will be felt across much of Southern California and southwestern Arizona.

[msongs]

1. heaviest rain in the desert which has little rain over a year....so 4 inches may be a yrs worth nt

[RockRaven]

2. Rain (and flash flooding) in the southland/desert. By the time it gets to the central part of the

state it won't be dropping as much precip if any. But it will cause all sorts of lighting strikes in the Sierras and coastal ranges. So it's bringing clouds and probably fire, basically. Yippee.

From the images I've seen it's really just one swath of clouds or arm which is going to pass over the state as the storm blows itself apart. It looks like the eye of the storm is going to do a left-handed U-turn off in the Pacific before it even gets as far north as the latitude of the Baja/CA border.

Nevertheless, if it helps break up this obscene heat situation of the past few days, many of us will be more comfortable.

[BigmanPigman]

3. It looks like we could get between 1-2" in San Diego

which is much needed rain. Since the soil is baked hard like rock the rain will be mainly runoff and flooding at first then some will eventually soak into the ground. My car will finally get bath ...woohoo!

https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/09/08/heat-wave-may-have-helped-pull-hurricane-north-toward-san-diego

"Though the ocean is getting warmer in spots — and generally warmer overall — the Pacific waters near San Diego are still too cold to feed a hurricane. If a tropical storm were to move north, it would quickly lose strength as it hit the cooler waters, Cayan said. The monsoonal weather pattern that brought humidity to San Diego during the heat wave is helping bring the storm’s fringe into the region. Rainfall amounts are unclear, but, because the storm is swirling in a counterclockwise pattern, more moisture will fall in the county’s desert region than in the coastal zone. Flash flooding is a concern because a lot of rain will likely fall in a short amount of time."

"He is tracking surface temperatures in the western Pacific and Western Atlantic, which are up 4 degrees Fahrenheit compared with the average temperatures of the rest of the oceans. The large pools of warmer water can have an impact on things such as currents and habitats — and they can also change how weather systems react to the ocean and atmosphere. We have not had that much storminess over these last several months, which allows the heat to accumulate at the surface,” Cayan said. "It doesn’t get stirred up, and consequently we get sea surface temperature anomalies that are extremely warm.”

Let is rain!

[Xolodno]

4. If memory serves me correctly.

San Diego did get hit by a hurricane a very long time ago. Previous company I worked that was hosting a social at a restaurant asked the owner if he considered the company to insure them. He said yes. But was declined due to underwriting. So they investigated, turns out there was this really ancient underwriting rule that forbade writing there due to this hurricane.

[brush]

5. Aren't they called typhoons or cyclones in the Pacific?

[Wrestlefire769]

6. To me, this looks like a dangerous concoction...

Worst CA heatwave ever, or in a very long time, and now a Pacific cyclone remnant?

Oh boy...