Hammered by rain and wind, southern California’s wild weather took an unexpected turn when an earthquake shook the state.
After months of sweltering summer heat and temperatures in the early 30s, residents of the California cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Palm Springs woke this morning to a blanket of grey storm clouds rolling in from the south.While the prevailing mood was relatively calm - quiet streets, no pedestrians and few cars on the road, in an unsettling echo of the 2020 pandemic shutdown - there were reports of flooded streets and some mudslides.
That will change today, as the hurricane - now downgraded to a tropical storm - actually starts to move along the route predicted by the National Weather Service: through the city of San Diego and into central California, cutting a line along the mountains that will take it between Los Angeles and Palm Springs towards the neighbouring state of Nevada.At 8am Monday AEST, Hilary was located about 160 km south-southeast of San Diego, and moving north at around 35 km/h.
“[People] need to stay home,” San Diego Sheriff Kelly Martinez said. “We need to really heed the warnings that the worst of the storm has yet to come.” The hurricane, which formed initially as a tropical storm in an area of low pressure off the southern coasts of Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, reached hurricane strength last week.
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