Category 4 storm aimed toward Southern California threatens yr’s rain in at some point

Southern California has been issued its first-ever tropical storm watch as “large and powerful” Hurricane Hilary takes intention at Mexico and the area over the subsequent 48 hours.

The National Hurricane Center says that the watch is unprecedented for the area and Hilary is predicted to carry heavy rain and the chance of flash flooding from the Baja California peninsula all the best way north to Nevada.

As of Friday, the hurricane was situated about 360 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with most sustained winds of 145 mph.

“It is rare — indeed nearly unprecedented in the modern record — to have a tropical system like this move through Southern California,” Greg Postel of the Weather Channel instructed CBS News.

The final time a tropical storm hit California was 1939, earlier than they had been even given names and the state has been hit by sub-tropical storms within the years since. Forty-five individuals died in that storm, most from drowning.

The hurricane is predicted to hit Baja Mexico over the weekend and weaken and arrive in Southern California as a tropical storm on Sunday night.

“Right now, it’s looking like we’ll still have a tropical storm when it moves into Southern California, but it’s going to be weakening pretty quickly,” stated meteorologist Brandt Maxwell, of the National Weather Service.