[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (September 9)

On This Date In California Weather History....

1984: A tropical air mass lasting two weeks and high sea surface temperatures led to record minimum temperature records set each day except one at San Diego starting on 9.4 and ending on 9.19.
Low temperatures ranged from 73° to the highest minimum of all time of 78° on this day and on 9.17.
The high was 100° on 9.8.
The low temperature of 80° reached in both Santa Ana and Escondido are each the highest minimum temperature on record.
San Diego reached 100°, the hottest day since 9.15.1979.
Poor air quality and high humidity caused numerous health problems.

1976: Record rains that started on this day and ended on 9.12 came from Tropical Storm Kathleen (called a 160+ year event by meteorologists).
14.76 inches fell on south slopes of Mt. San Gorgonio, 10.13 inches at Mt. Laguna, eight inches at Mt. San Jacinto, Four+ inches in the Little San Bernardino Mountains, and 1.8 to 2.8 inches in the Coachella Valley.
Deep Canyon (above La Quinta) recorded 2.96 inches in three hours on 9.10.
Rainfall in the Santa Rosa Mountains above the Coachella Valley was called the "heaviest in recorded history."
Six were buried and killed in sand in Ocotillo.
Floods of record were attained at numerous streams around the Coachella Valley.
This occurred during the El Niño of 1976-77.
Hurricane Kathleen also brought the southwest the highest sustained winds ever associated with an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 57 mph at Yuma on 9.10.

1961: Hawthorne, NV recorded 1.14 inches of precipitation.

1960: Fresno received 0.02" of rain.
This was the first time rain fell since May 1, 1960, marking an end of 130 day streak with no measurable precipitation.

1960: North northwestward moving Hurricane Estelle dissipated west of the central Baja California coast.
The heaviest rains were over the San Diego County Mountains with 3.40 inches recorded at Julian from this day to 9.10.

1955: The high temperature at Lovelock, NV was 98.

1945: A tropical cyclone moving north northwestward just off the west coast of Baja California dissipated off the coast of northern Baja California.
Showers produced rainfall up to two inches in the mountains from this day to 9.10.

1944: The high temperature at Reno, NV was 96.

1917: It was 40° in Santa Ana, the lowest temperature on record for September.
This also occurred on 9.3.1923 and on 9.26.1948.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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