us89 wrote:bob rulz wrote:I'm sure a lot of people are exhausted by this season lol. Luckily I don't live in an area that can be hit by hurricanes, so I haven't had the spend the entire season on my toes wondering when the next threat is coming my way. I just track them because it's interesting to me.
I actually used to live in Salt Lake. Sure, we never got any direct tropical systems, but usually around half of the monsoon surges in late summer were related to an EPac system in some way. Sometimes it was just a meteorological curiosity, but sometimes the name stuck around especially if it caused a lot of flood impacts. Norbert 2014 was a good example of that.
That's true. I'm pretty sure there's posts from that time period of me being excited that we're getting moisture lol. I'm always looking for EPAC systems that are oriented towards the southwestern U.S. Another notable one is Linda in 2015, which caused some of the worst flooding ever seen in southern Utah (tons of flooding deaths in slot canyons, and I remember several cars from a polygamist community got washed off the road). I also know that the wettest month on record in Salt Lake - September 1982 - was related to a perfectly oriented moisture surge from the remnants of Hurricane Olivia (also one of the storms to make it closest to Los Angeles in modern times). Usually in Salt Lake though it's just providing a nice shot of moisture in a time when it's usually really dry.
Good to see someone who's familiar with my home city! Salt Lake is beautiful.
Anyway sorry to derail the topic with something totally unrelated. Theta is looking like it's on its way out. it's definitely wandering into an area that isn't traversed by tropical systems all that often. Theta had a good run as a November subtropical system...