Hurricane Hilary - Aug ‘23

[divorcedx4]

does anyone know when Tardy will have the next briefing?

[Flapjack]

At 11 this morning.

[divorcedx4]

thanks, cant find it live…just wait for the youtube channel to update

[anvilhead]

Santa Ana wind event now in progress.

[Eweturn]

Do you have a link?

[ghost7]

I dunno if “here it comes” is appropriate here. Rain is gonna be right behind it, just hours away.

VentuSky HRRR projection for 6pm PT. Fight’s on.

[ghost7]

12:02 pm PT. San Felipe, Mexico on the northwestern Gulf of California coast. Up to an 1.5" to 2" per hour with 45-65mph gusts, lightning and coastal surge.

[divorcedx4]

does anyone know where this briefing is? (#5)

[Capt4711]

what is a good simple app for wind speed and direction?

[Fyredude76]

Windy is a good app for that. ‎Windy.com - Weather & Radar on the App Store

[FireCapt]

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?obs=true&wfo=sto

[Dalilama]

CAL OES US&R RTF-2 (Downey) RTF-4 (Pasadena) RTF-5 (Fresno) have been activated for preposition.

[Thatguyoutwest]

Teal79 just landed SMX.

[ghost7]

SMX. TEAL79 taxi to park at the Jet Center (Cal Fire/USFS office and tanker reloading base) and Tanker75 takeoff after reloading for SBC-Hapgood and SBC-Plant Fires.

[ghost7]

TEAL99 WC-130J Weatherbird Hurricane Hunter, taking off from SMX.

[ghost7]

The Hurricane Hunters were just in time to see the rodeo.

The US Navy is pushing ships, submarines and aircraft into the near shore Southern California area. This is a P-8A Poseidon. Catalina Island is under an evacuation advisory. Channel Islands might follow.

[ghost7]

3:30 pm PT Sat Aug 19. Owens Valley, flooding around Lone Pine on the 395.

[MVUFirePhotographer]

I saw an interview on the Weather Channel earlier today where a FEMA person was saying SoCal residents are not taking this storm serious. Well you wanna know why. Right now at 450PM as the storm is within 24-36 hours of landfall here this is what is on our local news channels. NBC has “Open House”. CBS has Inside Edition. KUSI has Family Fued and ABC has “Oh Baby”. Whatever the F that is. Only the Weather Channel is live covering the storm and nobody in SoCal even knows the weather channel exists let alone where to find in their TV’s. You want to know why SoCal doesn’t care or are informed about the dangers of this storm??? It’s because the local media doesn’t care to alert the masses of what’s coming. Anyone remember Maui??

[Oldman]

Some of the local TV networks are covering it in Phoenix, AZ, for local impacts in AZ. Go figure!