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Aug 17, 2023 · Hilary weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm Sunday and then to a post-tropical storm overnight, bringing heavy rains to Northern Mexico and Southern California. Category 5 4 3 2 1 ...
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Hurricane Hilary moved into Southern California as a tropical storm Sunday evening, bringing heavy rainfall after making its way up Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, where it made landfall late Sunday morning. The storm prompted officials at the National Hurricane Center to issue a tropical storm warning for most of Southern California, marking the first time a tropical storm warning or watch had ever been issued for the region.
Hilary was downgraded again early Monday, to a post-tropical cyclone. The system was expected to dissipate later in the day but still produce heavy rainfall, significant flooding and gusty winds across the Western U.S.
More than half a year's worth of rain fell in the desert city of Palm Springs, California, CBS News correspondent Carter Evans reports. Mount Wilson in Angeles National Forest recorded over 8.5 inches of rain as of 7 a.m. PDT, the top amount reported by the National Weather Service's Los Angeles office. Beverly Hills recorded 4.8 inches, and downtown LA recorded nearly 3 inches.
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Hurricane watches and warnings had been in effect for parts of the Baja California Peninsula, and a tropical storm warning was in place for nearly all of Southern California. By Monday morning, all coastal warnings had been discontinued, but the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said flood watches were in effect for Southern California, northwest Arizona, much of Nevada, southwest Utah, eastern Oregon, western and central Idaho and southeast Washington. A flood watch means flooding is possible in those areas.
LA County officials had advised all residents and visitors on California's Catalina Island to leave as soon as possible ahead of the storm's arrival.
As of 8 a.m. PDT Monday, Hilary was about 115 miles west-northwest of Elko, Nevada, and racing north-northeast at 24 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.
The storm made landfall in Mexico's northern Baja California peninsula late Sunday morning.
The center of Hilary moved into Southern California on Sunday evening, several hours after making landfall in Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
The hurricane center said at 8 p.m. PDT Sunday that Hilary's north-northwestern track was expected to continue into Monday.
The last time Southern California was hit by a tropical storm was in 1939, before storms were given names, CBS News senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson said. Several storms that had been hurricanes or tropical storms have impacted the state since then, but they had weakened to sub-tropical systems by that time, Parkinson noted.
"It is rare — indeed nearly unprecedented in the modern record — to have a tropical system like this move through Southern California," Greg Postel, a hurricane and storm specialist at the Weather Channel, told CBS News.
Hilary is likely to produce landslides and mudslides in certain areas recently burned by wildfires, and storm surges along parts of the southern Baja Peninsula and the Gulf of California coast, the Weather Channel reports.
"You're looking at a winter-like storm now in the summer in places that are not used to this amount of rain," Parkinson said.
Hurricane Hilary moved into Southern California as a tropical storm Sunday evening, bringing flooding and gusty winds after making landfall in Mexico. The storm was the first ever to be issued a warning for the region and prompted a state of emergency and evacuation orders.
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- Gina Martinez
Aug 20, 2023 · People sit on a beach in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, August 20. Jorge Duenes/Reuters. Tropical Storm Hilary is moving faster as it nears landfall along Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Hilary ...
Hilary is the first tropical storm to arrive in the region in 84 years. Hurricanes and tropical storms are so rare in the area that Southern California hasn’t been in the path of a storm since ...
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Aug 21, 2023 · Track the path of Hurricane Hilary, the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, on this interactive map. See the latest news, photos and videos of the storm's impact and aftermath in Mexico and the U.S.
Aug 19, 2023 · Hurricane Hilary, a Category 1 storm, is expected to bring “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” to Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States.; The storm — which prompted a ...
Aug 21, 2023 · Hilary is now 115 miles west-northwest of Elko, Nevada, and is moving to the north-northeast at 24 mph. CNN is tracking the storm’s path over the US. Southern California residents already ...
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