Tropical Storm Kay Threatening Southern California

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For those who might have missed it, with all the extreme heat we have had in Southern California for much of this summer (daytime temperatures at or above 90 degrees for something like thirty straight days) and brushfires, we are now dealing with the potential effects of Tropical Storm Kay, which is parked off the coast of northern Baja, about 150 miles south of San Diego. Early this morning, it had been downgraded from a Category 1 hurricane, during which time it had lashed the Pacific coast of Mexico with high winds and inundating rainfall; but even as a tropical storm (minimum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour at its center), it has the potential to drop as much as 2-4 inches of rain on us, which is ten times the normal rainfall we normally get in September, and which, especially if it falls almost entirely at once, will likely cause flooding and mudslides, particularly in our recent burn zones. The rain bands that are rotating around the storm are likely to be here by nightfall; and it could be a hair-raising weekend for all of us here.

More information can be found at this link:
www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/weather/tropical-storm-kay-heat-wave-friday/index.html