#Current rainfall totals ventura update#

'Our mountains and deserts could receive as much as 5 to 10 inches of rain,' Tardy said today at a news conference. He noted said it is the first tropical storm to hit the area since 1939. local time, said Alex Tardy, a National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist. High winds and heavy rain are expected to approach between 2 p.m. San Diego officials and the National Weather Service asked residents to stay home as the worst of Tropical Storm Hilary has yet to hit the county. The storm was moving north at 23 mph and would most likely accelerate, the hurricane center said. Maximum sustained winds were expected to remain at 60 mph, federal forecasters said. Hauser Mountain, northwest of the border town of Campo, recorded a 72 mph gust, it said.

#Current rainfall totals ventura update#

PT update said a gust of 70 mph was recorded at Sill Hill, a mountain peak near the town of Julian in northern San Diego County.

The National Hurricane Center said its tropical force winds are spread out 230 miles from Hilary's center. The storm arrived much weakened from its major hurricane status yesterday, but its destruction was nonetheless as predicted. NBC News tracking showed Hilary off San Diego despite forecasts that it would take a path to the east of Southern California's populous coastal geography. 'The closest thing is over coastal waters.' 'The storm is collapsing in on itself, so there is not a super-defined core anymore,' she said. The storm was becoming scattered as it moved north, so estimating an exact time of arrival was difficult, weather service meteorologist Casey Oswant said. Hilary's core arrived in Southern California today sometime before 3 p.m., when it crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, a National Weather Service forecaster said. One person drowned Saturday in the Mexican town of Santa Rosalia on the peninsula’s eastern coast after a vehicle was swept away in an overflowing stream. The storm made landfall on Sunday on the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. It was the first tropical storm to hit southern California since 1939. Once a Category 4 hurricane, Hilary was downgraded to a tropical depression before reaching California.

Several records for daily rainfall amounts were broken for Sunday's date in the Los Angeles area, the National Weather Service said.

Forecasters warned of 'life-threatening' flooding in areas not known for rainfall and said strong winds might down trees and power lines.

Rescue workers managed to save four other people, said Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, the mayor of Mulege township.

A person drowned Saturday in the Mexican town of Santa Rosalia, on the peninsula’s eastern coast.

Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall Sunday on the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, with “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” expected in the region, including across parts of the southwestern U.S., according to the National Hurricane Center.