(WGHP) – For the first time in 84 years, California is experiencing a tropical storm. According to the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, the last time California took a direct hit from a tropical storm was on Sept. 25, 1939. To put that into perspective, the last time California had a tropical storm, Franklin […]
With Hurricane Hilary likely to hit Southern California as either a weak Category 1 hurricane or a tropical storm, meteorologists are revisiting some of the previous tropical cyclones to hit the Golden State in recorded history. There haven’t been many. Thanks to cooler ocean water temperatures and a regional high-pressure system, storms rarely gain or […]