STRENGTHENED IT IS NOW A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE. SANDHYA PATEL IS HERE WITH THE LATEST AND A LOOK AT THE POSSIBLE IMPACTS. LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT. WE KNOW THIS AFTERNOON HURRICANE HILARY WAS A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE AND NOW IT IS A THREE. WHAT IS THE STATUS RIGHT NOW AND WHERE IS HILARY? SANDHYA: RIGHT NOW IT IS SOUTHWEST OF THE MEXICO COAST. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE TROPICAL SATELLITE PICTURE AND YOU WILL SEE THIS HURRICANE HAS INTENSIFIED. IT IS NOW A MAJOR CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE AS YOU JUST MENTIONED. IT IS PACKING WINDS OF 120 MILES PER HOUR MAX SUSTAINED MOVING WEST, NORTHWEST AT 14 MILES AN HOUR. IT IS ABOUT 445 MILES SOUTH OF CABO SAN LUCAS. LET ME SHOW YOU THE PROJECTED PATH. IT IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN INTO A MAJOR CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE AS WE HEAD TOWARDS TOMORROW AND INTO SATURDAY. IT IS APPROACHING THE CABO SAN LUCAS COAST. ONE THING YOU WILL NOTICE IS AS IT HEADS TOWARDS NORTHERN PORTION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IT WEAKENS EITHER TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION OR TO A TROPICAL STORM. IF IT IS A TROPICAL STORM AT LANDFALL THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME IN 84 YEARS. THE LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS IN 1939. SO OF COURSE THIS IS CONCERNING. KARINA: BECAUSE WE ARE EXPECTING A LOT OF RAIN AND FLOODING CONCERNS IN PARTS OF CALIFORNIA ONCE IT HITS. WHO WILL BE IMPACTED AND HOW MUCH COULD WE SEE? SANDHYA: THE WORST OF THIS IS EXPECTED TO BE OTHER WER -- TO BE OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE RED INDICATES BETWEEN SUNDAY AND MONDAY, THE PALM SPRINGS AREA WILL SEE AN INCREASED RISK OF EXCESSIVE RAIN WHICH WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. CERTAINLY BY MONDAY. THERE'S A MARGINAL RISK OF EXCESSIVE RAIN INTO THE CENTRAL COAST SHADED IN GREEN, WHICH IS CONCERNING BECAUSE FLASH FLOODING IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING WE HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR WHEN YOU GET THESE HURRICANES THAT WEAKEN. THERE'S ALWAYS MOISTURE TRANSPORTED, EVEN IF IT IS JUST REMNANTS OF THE HURRICANE. YOU LOOK AT SUNDAY GOING INTO MONDAY YOU WILL NOTICE THE VOCAL THE PRECIPITATION IS OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE SIERRA. BUT WE MAY JUST GET A LITTLE BIT OF THAT RAIN MOVING INTO OUR AREA. SO FOR THE TIME BEING WE ARE PUTTING IN THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME SHOWERS ON MONDAY, BUT MOST OF THE COMPUTER MODELS HAD IT SHIFTING INTO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE SIERRA. RAINFALL PROJECTIONS WITH THIS COMPUTER MODEL SHOWING YOU A FEW TENTHS OF AN INCH IN THE BAY AREA. A SLIGHT SHIFT TO THE WEST MAY END UP BEING HIGHER TOTALS THAN WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW. CERTAINLY IS GOING TO BE A SOAKING FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO ALMOST THREE INCHES IN LOS ANGELES. EVEN IN PLACES LIKE BISHOP YOU ARE LOOKING AT OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN. SO FLOODWATERS WILL BE GOING UP AS EARLY AS SATURDAY FOR PARTS OF THE SOUTHWEST AND CONTINUING INTO MONDAY. THE CONCERN THAT I HAVE IS THIS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE. THIS AREA OF LOW PRESSURE HAS BEEN SPINNING HERE. AS YOU HAVE NOTICED WE HAVE SEEN THUNDERSTORMS WITH WRAPAROUND MOISTURE ACROSS CALIFORNIA. WE HAVE SEEN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MOUNT HAMILTON, THE DIABLO RANGE NORTH OF LAKE COUNTY. AS THIS LOW CONTINUES TO MEANDER OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST A LITTLE BIT TO THE NORTH, A LITTLE BIT TO THE SOUTH, EVENTUALLY THE LEFTOVERS OF THAT HURRICANE HILARY COULD GET DRAWN UP INTO OUR AREA. SO MY CONCERN IS EVEN THOUGH THIS STORM IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE A DIRECT HIT ON THE BAY AREA, IT WILL CERTAINLY NOT BE A HURRICANE, IT IS EXPECTED TO POSSIBLY IMPACT US CERTAINLY IN THE FORM OF MORE CLOUD COVER AS EARLY AS SUNDAY, CONTINUING THROUGH TUESDAY WHICH MEANS HIGHER HUMIDITY. IF YOU THINK IT IS STICKY NOW, IT WILL GET EVEN STICKIER. IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, THIS IS NOW A MAJOR CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE SOUTH OF CABO SAN LUCAS, PACKING 120 MILE-PER-HOUR WINDS, EXPECTED TO BECOME A MAJOR CATEGORY FOUR AS IT APPROACHES THE CABO SAN LUCAS COAST. MAXIMUM RAINFALL TOTALS THERE, 10 INCHES, THREE TO SIX INCHES AROUND MOST AREAS AROUND BAJA, CALIFORNIA. BY THE TIME IT HEADS INTO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THEY ARE EXPECTING ANYWHERE FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN, ISOLATED MAXIMUM OF UP TO EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN, WHICH WILL BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING. KARINA: IN SOME PARTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THAT ARE NOT USED TO SEEING THAT MUCH RAIN, PARTS OF THE DESERT ARE EXPECTING POSSIBLY RECORD RAIN FOR THE YEAR. IS THAT RIGHT? SANDHYA: THEY COULD BE SEEING AS MUCH RAIN AS THEY WOULD SEE IN AN ENTIRE YEAR IN JUST A MATTER OF A COUPLE OF DAYS. SO THAT IS CONCERNING. THE DESERT, OBVIOUSLY IT CANNOT JUST ABSORB ALL OF THAT RAIN. IT WILL START TO RUN OFF, THEY WILL SEE A POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. KARINA: IT CERTAINLY IS CONCERNING. WHEN WILL WE GET A BETTER IDEA OF THE REAL IMPACT HERE IN THE BAY AREA? SANDHYA: GIVE IT A COUPLE MORE DAYS AS WE GET A LITTLE CLOSER. ONCE AGAIN, KEEP IN MIND JUST BECAUSE COMPUTER MODELS ARE KEEPING THE TRACK EAST OF THE BAY AREA AND INTO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE SIERRA, DOES NOT MEAN IT CANNOT CHANGE. IT COULD EASILY SHIFT WESTWARD A LITTLE BIT AND IF IT DOES, WE WOULD BE IN FOR QUITE A SOAKING AS EARLY AS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. BUT IT COULD BE A FEW SHOWERS AS EARLY AS SUNDAY DEPENDING ON HOW THIS ACTUALLY EVOLVES ULTIMATELY. SO STAY TUNED. KARINA: I KNOW YOU AND YOUR TEAM WILL BE WATCHING IT CLOSELY AND UPDATING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YOU ARE ALWAYS ON IT. I ALWAYS RETWEET YOU ON OUR WEBSITE, EVERYWHERE, AND OF COURSE ON-AIR.
