Major storms like Hilary, which threatened San Diego three years ago, eventually will be much more likely to hit Southern California than they are now, a new paper has concluded.
The research from Stanford climate experts indicates that some major weather events affecting the region will be at least twice as likely by the end of the century.
Yuan Wang, an assistant professor at the Department of Earth System Science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, studies the relationship between atmosphere and climate change. He says August 2023’s storm Hilary, a rare Pacific-fed hurricane that became a less destructive tropical storm before making landfall in Baja California and reaching San Diego, was a “hundred-year event” throughout recorded history…