“Strengthening east winds between high pressure to the north and the tropical system to the south bring downslope warming while moisture and clouds increasing from the south could offset the warming.” “It’s a complicated high temperature forecast for Friday for the coast and valleys,” the National Weather Service in San Diego said. Here's how days of extreme heat are impacting life ![]() Record high temperatures continue to bake the West. Forecasters said the mercury could reach as high as 112 Fahrenheit (44 Celsius) in the densely populated Los Angeles suburbs as a heat dome settles in over parts of California, Nevada and Arizona. ![]() A "dangerous" heat wave has taken hold of the southwestern US. TOPSHOT - Vehicles drive past a sign on the 110 Freeway warning of extreme heat and urging energy conservation during a heat wave in downtown Los Angeles, California on September 2, 2022. On Friday, Hurricane Kay will still be about 220 miles south of San Diego, the weather service in Los Angeles wrote, but the flow around the storm will bring easterly winds to the area, which could bring extreme heat all the way down to the beaches. The punishing heat wave that has hit the western states is likely to ease in most of the West toward the end of the week, except in Southern California. Kay’s exact impacts on Southern California are still somewhat questionable, but here are the possibilities. These rainfall amounts could lead to flash flooding, including landslides.Īccording to Mexico’s National Meteorological Service, the storm has already delivered torrential rains to Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Puebla and Oaxaca.Īt least three people have died in the storm, the director of Guerrero state’s Civil Protection, Roberto Arroyo, said in an on-camera statement to Reuters on Sunday. Kay is expected to produce 4 to 8 inches of rainfall, with isolated storm total amounts of 12 inches, across portions of western Mexico through Thursday night. These winds, surf and rainfall impacts will extend far from the center of Kay, the hurricane center warns. “It should be noted that Kay is a fairly large hurricane with its tropical-storm-force winds (39 mph+) estimated to extend outward up to 175 miles from the center.” “Strengthening is forecast during the next 36 hours, and Kay could become a major hurricane during that time,” the National Hurricane Center said. ![]() The hurricane is expected to intensify as it travels northwest up the west coast of Mexico this week. ![]() Kay had sustained winds of 85 mph Tuesday evening and the center of the storm was located about 275 miles from the southern tip of the peninsula. The worst conditions are expected on the peninsula however, the storm will still dictate the weather pattern for Southern California through the weekend. It is expected to turn west and weaken more after coming close to San Diego on Saturday. The storm will make its closest approach and perhaps make landfall on the central portion of the Peninsula late Thursday. The core of Hurricane Kay will be very near the west-central Baja California Peninsula, just after its peak intensity, on Thursday and Friday.Ī hurricane watch is in effect for the west coast of the peninsula from Puerto Cortes to Punta Eugenia, according to the government of Mexico.Ī tropical storm warning is in effect from Punta Abreojos southward to Cabo San Lucas and from Cabo San Lucas northward to Santa Rosalia, and a tropical storm watch is in effect from north of Santa Rosalia to Bahia De Los Angeles and from north of Punta Eugenia to San Jose De Las Palomas. A strengthening hurricane tracking up Mexico’s Pacific Coast will affect Southern California’s weather by the weekend – all while delivering punishing rains and high winds to the Mexican coast through Friday.
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