We have home in Temecula. Hoping all goes well today.

We're not there right now so We are concerned as just above San Diego.

Light rain in Palm Desert. Just started the smoker. since I'll be home all day watching the storm I might as well smoke a brisket.

I am on the East Coast, but the hyperbolic language, is typical of media and government types. The predictions of a catastrophic storm season for 2023 have yet to bear fruit, so any weather event that occurs, will garner max attention.

Floridian here. Take it seriously. Even a high-end tropical storm can be downright scary and very damaging, and that's in a place where things are built for it.

I guess the Baja peninsula doesn't have a lot of residents; but the news coverage reminds me of this The Onion video:

Hopefully not a serious storm.

Better hyperbole than Lahaina “shrugs”.

Yeah, I’m not sure what to expect. I live in the La Crescenta foothills…and when we get crazy rain, it just flows down the hill. We’ve had 60mph winds, and while it leaves a mess - I’ve never seen trees fall or too much damage. So…I’m not sure if that’s about what to expect or way worse? I think the mountain is far enough that we’d be safe from mudslides….but I don’t know! No ones really freaking out…I think if this was a danger zone, we’d be hearing more about it.

Good luck everyone!!!!

As a 42 year resident of Florida, all I can say is stock up on beer!

Forecast 2.66 inches rain in San Clemente was downgraded to 2.16 inches. We had that last season a few times. Wind from 28 to 35 mph. It's gonna cause problems in Palm Springs area as it will rain there more and the area always floods. The usual suspects like Highland will probably have problems. The only difference to me is Its August.

LOL.

Everyone relax, get some beer, get your skateboards and garbage bag sails out. Get that kite out you haven't flown in awhile.

It's barely a storm

So far it has been a normal rainy day, not even that much rain...

Best wishes for all those in the path of this particular storm!

Hard to relax re: future weather extremes though as climate change isn't going away. That's becoming more obvious with every passing day.

We were scheduled to land at LAX from the East Coast at 7:15pm tonight but changed flights to come back a day early.

Just put up a cool 2.5 billion on Godzilla and am now sitting in the sun room, watching baseball and listening to the rain.

No regrets about my decision. Stay strong neighborhood trees!!!

You are delusional. Hard to avoid the fantasy land wing nuts. It is summer in the US. The Southeast is dog hot(like summer in the Southeast has been for my 57 years on earth) and there are storms. This year is actually particularly NON THREATENING. Get worked up with every passing day..

Yeah ... sure.

Aye yi yi.

Been mild for us so far. We prepared for it it be stronger just in case but wasn’t expecting a lot, and that’s been especially true as the storm has shifted east.

Loved adding an earthquake to the mix.

Climate change denial is too political for me to want to discuss it here.

But I’ll tell you what, the military and fossil fuel companies, the nominal “side” of many deniers, sure know it’s real.

Man on the street reporting here.
I drove this morning all the way home from CAX, and it was quite the adventure!

Decided on the 101 winding shot instead of possible flooding on the 5/Grapevine.
Was a good call for the most part.
Even managed to hit Ojai right around when the earthquake hit.

I had a Ferrari pass me at 120 and was naturally pulled over a couple miles down the road.

Right around SLO it started to dump.
Saw around six accidents and a few center divider run-ins. As well as a Tesla model 3 somehow launching itself off the side of a berm. (Self driving rules! Right?!?)

Once Ventura came up it was dumping even harder and continued until Universal City.

Several deep puddle jumps and a few white outs from all the wheel spray and I finally got to the home stretch.

Came home to normal run of the mill rain and felt disappointed that my house wasn’t floating down the street like NorCal news was predicting earlier this AM. lol

Hope everyone else faired the same here in SoCal.

In CAX news,
Venom premium IS fast!

Glad you made it home safe.

So far it’s pretty tame, kinda what I had hoped. Just heavy rain, flowing away down the hill. Not even a ceiling leak so far (knock on wood). No real wind or thunder/lighting yet.

It kind of says something when some rain gets us in Cali worried lol I was expecting a lot more of a storm because people were really hyping this up. I once drove through Oregon and I shit you not it was raining cats and dogs the entire time and people in Oregon were treating it like it was a normal day. Traffic pretty much crawls to a halt in Cali when it rains hard.

Even o-din’s rabbit knew it would be a big, fat, nothingburger…

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I’m from New Orleans. Y’all will be fine. Trust me. Go print out a hurricane recipe and have a hurricane party.

Looked at My Cameras in Temecula and My Driveway looks dry? Palm trees not even moving.

And looked at pics of flooding in Baja and it's almost like I was right in the Eye of it?

90% of the "climate change " is controlled by the Sun.

It's not an overreaction to keep the kids home for safety in the middle of a storm.

Weather prediction is never 100%, and from decades in FL, the worst happens when people decide to underestimate a storm and not be prepared. That's when lives are lost, and folks regret not taking things seriously. It sucks when it ends up being nothing, but it's better than the alternative.

Aside from my legs and feet getting a little wet from going to the grocery store in shorts and sandals, it was pretty mild. But still, a nice change of pace from the dry heat we’ve been having the last month.

Edit: I will say, the drive in to work was nice. No traffic at all.

When I get sick I don't go to a physician to have the bad humors bled out of me because I believe in modern science instead of superstition and ignorance.

Climate change isn't Tinkerbell, it doesn't die if you just stop believing in it.

There are things you don't get to be wrong about.

The storm lost strength, but it might not have. It went east, and then it veered back west. As you said, prediction is never 100%, these systems are so enormously complicated. Modeling them is always hard.

Some areas saw legit flooding. There are roads that are dangerous. They're going to inspect the schools and find that some have water issues.

We prepped for strong winds. We didn't need to. So we wasted a morning putting furniture in our backyard away, and so what? Better to be prepped and not have anything happen than shrug and get a lawn chair through your window. I figured that was unlikely, but given how rare this is why pretend I really knew? Not like this has happened in my lifetime, what experience do I really have?

I think some people have a funny response when preparation wasn't as necessary as it could have been. Like, do you wish it was really bad? Would you feel better about preparing if your house did flood after all?

The science experts are all paid to deliver results. No emergency no funding. If you zoom out it makes me doubt a lot of them, the facts don’t add up for a lot of climate change or covid restrictions and care imo.

You don't know many scientists then as literally that's not how they get "paid". That's what politicians love to say, yet of course then why are folks listening to the all so trustworthy politicians?

Yes listen to the politicians making millions off lobiest and special interest groups, but ignore the science out of universities by folks depending on grants to even be allowed to use fancy equipment and they aren't making a cent off of their research.

When was the last glacier in the Midwest?

Just sayin.

I managed to find out who the crazy Ferrari driver was…
It was Dan Keller.
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Pinball companies can't even manage to get most of their games out with something leaking but there's a world wide conspiracy involving millions of people to scam ... climate change research money that has never come to light.

Climate change is real, it's been real, and it will keep being real. That doesn't mean SoCal will have hurricanes every year now. Or that there will be glaciers in the midwest, whatever that has to do with anything.

But we're likely to keep seeing more extreme weather than we're used to, and it's going to become the new normal that many people will just stop thinking about, because that's how human beings are wired.

That’s not what o-din’s rabbit tells me Aurich…

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There used to be and there are no longer. They disappeared and man had nothing to do with it. I think that is the point.

Okay?

Is this a thing people in Wisconsin are hung up on for some reason?

We're all just ants on a rock man.

Yet, we're the only ants on this rock with the capability of destroying the rock.

Oppenheimer. Worth a watch.

We aren't destroying the "rock" just our ability to live on it.

Give us time, we just need to try harder.

I’m just saying - even the people who don’t believe in climate change can’t totally deny the fact that our actions have significant consequences. We can nuke the whole planet into oblivion. We’ve seen the coral reefs destroyed. We’ve seen the holes in the ozone layer. We’ve seen oil spills. We’ve seen Chernobyl. Just because we’re ants on a rock doesn’t mean we are incapable of extreme damage.