Saturday

My comment about hurricane possibility article in San Diego.

I read this story a week ago, it is really stupid and ill conceived.I lived in Honolulu and now San Diego, 1 and 2 on the list. Every USA coastal city and town in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Atlantic should be listed ahead of San Diego and Honolulu even if they got hit by a hurricane yesterday.The warmest the Pacific on the West Coast will likely get in at least the next 10 years is maybe 75 degrees and that temperature might last for about a week. That plus the jet stream out here with the high altitude winds that shear off the tops of hurricanes make the likelihood of a Category 1 or higher storm hitting San Diego about 0.

Honolulu' odds are higher, but Pacific hurricanes are so much more random in motion than the Atlantic spawned storms. Their erratic motion, plus they have to get past the cold water east of Hawaii makes a Category 1 or higher storm hitting Oahu much lower than any US East Coast city in August or September. But, for any place in Hawaii, like any place on the East Coast of the USA, the danger is real.

For San Diego, we should not waste our time worrying about hurricanes. That guy should get his license and ability to write stupid stories like his revoked.

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