All eyes are on the potential for significant impacts in California and the Southwest from the storm, which at 11 p.m. had maximum sustained winds of 125 mph according to the National Hurricane Center.
Hilary is forecast to become a major Category 4 hurricane, but it is expected to weaken, according to the center. if makes landfall on California as a tropical storm, it will be the first one in 84 years.
Thursday the track had it making landfall near San Diego as a tropical storm at 6 a.m. Monday, the National Weather Service for Los Angeles said, but shifts east or west could increase impacts for LA.
California could see several months’ worth of rain in just one or two days, potentially causing flash floods.
Three to 5 inches of rain, with isolated amounts of 10 inches, could fall in parts of Southern California and Southern Nevada, the Hurricane Center said.As Hilary heads north in the Pacific Ocean, the center of the storm will approach the Baja California peninsula over the weekend and California and the Southwest by late Sunday or early Monday.
The only time a tropical storm has made landfall in California the last 100 years was in Long Beach in 1939, according to the National Weather Service.
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