Could a hurricane lash Los Angeles? 80 years ago, this deadly storm came close

Could a hurricane lash Los Angeles? 80 years ago, this deadly storm came close

by Paul Duginski

No tropical cyclones had made it north of 25 degrees north latitude in the northeastern Pacific basin during all of 1937 and 1938. Then in 1939 there were four such storms in the space of one month.

All credit goes to Paul Duginski
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