Could a hurricane lash Los Angeles? 80 years ago, this deadly storm came close
LA TimesSeptember 1939 was a stormy month on the world stage. In Los Angeles that month, as residents sweated through an unusual heat wave and nervously watched the storm clouds of World War II gathering overseas, four tropical cyclones that would affect Southern California were born in the eastern North Pacific. Paths of the first and fourth in a series of September 1939 storms that affected Southern California, with the fourth one making landfall as a tropical storm. As the storm churned northward, Southern California broiled under a torrid heat wave, with a recorded temperature of 107.2 degrees in Los Angeles on Sept. 20. Here are some examples: Kathleen, Sept. 10, 1976: The first tropical cyclone to hit Southern California after the 1939 storm 37 years earlier, Kathleen dumped 10.78 inches of rain on Mt.
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