Hurricane Hilary is on a trajectory toward Mexico’s Baja California, with the U.S. National Hurricane Center anticipating a perilous situation of “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” for both the peninsula and the southwestern United States.

The hurricane is projected to traverse the border as a tropical storm on Sunday, the Associated Press has reported.

Preparations are in full swing even as far north as Los Angeles, where authorities are working to relocate the homeless from the streets, establish shelters, and organize evacuation strategies.

Anticipated to make landfall in Mexico’s Baja peninsula on Saturday night, Hilary is then predicted to continue its course northward, etching its mark in history as the initial tropical storm to strike Southern California in 84 years.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has released tropical storm alerts and potential flood warnings that span across a wide expanse of Southern California, encompassing the Pacific coast, interior mountains, and deserts.

There have been discussions regarding evacuation strategies for California’s Catalina Island.

Written by staff