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Formerly classified a hurricane, [1] it was the first tropical cyclone to directly affect California since the 1858 San Diego hurricane, [2] and is the only tropical cyclone of tropical-storm strength (or greater) to make landfall in the U.S. state of California. [3] The storm caused heavy flooding, leaving many dead, mostly at sea. [1]
July 20–21, 1902 – A tropical cyclone struck the southern Baja California peninsula and dissipated, although the monsoon drew its moisture northward. San Diego recorded 0.83 in (21 mm), which was the highest July rainfall total for the city until 2015 when it was surpassed by Hurricane Dolores. [3]: 17 [4]
The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was one of the largest floods in the history of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties in southern California.The flood was caused by two Pacific storms that swept across the Los Angeles Basin in February-March 1938 and generated almost one year's worth of precipitation in just a few days.
Southern California’s first rainfall of the year could help or hurt wildfire victims as fire spreads in San Diego area Andy Rose, Holly Yan and Karina Tsui, CNN January 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
California The largest and most destructive wildfire recorded in the modern history of San Diego County. [47] [50] 2001 Hurricane: 41 $5.5 billion Tropical Storm Allison: Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania: 1999 Hurricane: 85 $6.5 billion Hurricane Floyd: East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Canada: 1999 Heat wave: 271 Midwest and Northeast ...
New rainfall records were set in Los Angeles, which had its rainiest summer day for the weather station downtown at 2.82 inches. San Diego did the same, totaling 1.82 inches of rain, 10 times the ...
Get the West Hollywood, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... windy conditions contributing to deadly wildfires in Southern California, the parched region is finally set ...
The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4]Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.