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Axios: Category 4 Hurricane Hilary prompts first-ever tropical storm watch for California
The latest: A tropical storm watch is now in effect from the California/Mexico border northward to all of Los Angeles County, portions of Ventura County and Catalina Island. This is the first such severe weather alert to be issued for this part of the country.
- As of Friday at 5pm ET, Hurricane Hilary was a large Category 4 storm, with peak sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. Its center was located about 325 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and it was moving northwest at 12 mph.
- A turn to the north and increase in forward speed is expected over the next 24-36 hours.
- The storm’s winds are expected to slow on Saturday as it moves over cooler ocean waters. However, a faster forward speed may limit the magnitude of this trend, and wind speed changes would not diminish the potentially dire flood threat.
Threat level: A highly unusual weather pattern is evolving across the country, with links to human-caused climate change, that will help propel the formidable storm — by then in a less formidable state, rapidly northward into the typically dry Southwest during the next four days.
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