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September 25, 1939 – A tropical storm known as El Cordonazo, or The Lash of St. Francis, made landfall near Long Beach with sustained winds of 50 mph (85 km/h), which as of 2025 is the most recent tropical storm landfall in California. The storm killed 45 people across southern California, and another 48 people at sea, with residents caught ...
The 1991 Perfect Storm, ... The worst of the storm effects stayed offshore. A buoy 650 miles ... (1991 USD). Across the area, tide heights reached their highest since ...
This is a table of all of the storms that formed in the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season. It includes their name, duration, peak classification and intensities, areas affected, damage, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that ...
1 Only systems that formed either on or after January 1, 1991 are counted in the seasonal totals. 2 Only systems that formed either before or on December 31, 1991 are counted in the seasonal totals. 3 The wind speeds for this tropical cyclone/basin are based on the IMD Scale which uses 3-minute sustained winds.
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The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23.
California has sought to control its rivers for 172 years, and the storms will only get worse. These are 6 of the worst floods in Sacramento history. One made an ‘inland lake’ to the Sierra
Those warm ocean currents have a tendency to kick up strong storms, giving California good chances of a rainy winter. High surf pushes up the beach at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area ...