Speaking to CBS News, in an article entitled, “Has California ever had a hurricane? One expert says tropical storm threat from Hilary is "nearly unprecedented", Greg Postel, a hurricane and storm specialist at the Weather Channel said about Hurricane Hilary, “It is rare — indeed nearly unprecedented in the modern record — to have a tropical system like this move through Southern California”. How rare is it? According to the story, “ The last time a tropical storm made landfall in California was 84 years ago — before there was a system of naming storms“
However, when one looks at California Hurricanes on Wikipedia it seems to tell a very different story. Scrolling down the page, one can see that tropical storms hitting California have been extensive. Further, when reviewing the reason for Hilary, immediately, despite the CBS weather gibberish, it points directly to the summer’s intensified but natural El Niño.
Sitting in my home office as the rains of Hilary pour gently outside the rain-dropped window obscuring the scene outside, I read the Idaho Statesman with the title, “Hurricane Hilary has already made weather history for Idaho”. The history is that parts of Idaho for the very first time will be in Hilary’s, “cone of uncertainty” which is defined as the probable track of the center of a tropical cyclone or depression and the surrounding areas to be affected.
Wow – am I a witness to weather history?
Then I read, “The National Hurricane Center is responsible for the cone of uncertainty forecast, and the organization didn’t start creating them until July 2002.” In both of these cases, the title of the story is absolutely and purposely misleading. Lots of the readership never make it any further.
The fables of climate change simply need constant deceit to remain politically righteous and relevant.