{"id":628,"date":"2006-09-01T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2006-09-21T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T03:09:01","slug":"west-coast-tropical-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/09\/01\/west-coast-tropical-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Tropical Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Southern California about to get a rare weather event?  Some meteorologists think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,211637,00.html\">Hurricane John<\/a>, currently rampaging through Cabo San Lucas, may go as far north as Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1939_Long_Beach_Tropical_Storm\">1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0609\/windtree.jpg\" \/>The 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, once a hurricane, was the only Eastern Pacific tropical storm to hit California in known history. The only other tropical cyclone to directly affect California is the 1858 San Diego Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Storm History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On September 15, a tropical depression formed off the coast of Panama. It quickly strengthened into a hurricane. It tracked northward, instead of the usual westward movement of a typical Eastern Pacific hurricane. The hurricane likely was strong, as it needed to maintain its winds to a northerly latitude. The hurricane&#8217;s minimum measured pressure of 28.67 in Hg occurred on September 22. An upper level trough turned it to the northeast, where it weakened due to the cool waters.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before making landfall on September 25, it weakened to a tropical storm. The storm still managed to hit Long Beach, California as a 50 mph tropical storm, making it the only tropical cyclone in recorded history to hit the state of California. The storm quickly weakened over land, and likely dissipated within a day or two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Mom was a 19-year-old newlywed living in Long Beach at the time. She used to tell me about the great hurricane of &#8217;39 and embellish her recount with tales of power blackouts with shutters and screen doors blown off of her house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Southern California about to get a rare weather event? Some meteorologists think that Hurricane John, currently rampaging through Cabo San Lucas, may go as far&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}