It was one year ago Tuesday that Tropical Storm Hilary hit the San Diego area.
It started out as a hurricane as it churned off the west coast of Mexico and tracked north toward Southern California. The tropical cyclone rapidly intensified in a 24-hour period, peaking at major,
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued its first ever tropical storm watch for parts of southern California which was later changed to a warning as the storm approached the coast
Hilary did not make landfall in southern California, it did make landfall over the northern Baja California Peninsula in Mexico as a tropical storm on Sunday according to the NHC, and maintained tropical storm status as it arrived in Southern California on Sunday, August 20th, 2023.
WATCH VIDEO BELOW OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECAP OF HILARY.
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