#FEMA Update on #HurricaneHilary preparations in #California. #Hilary #Hurricane #CAwx

@ai6yr Ben, what do you see as likely in Ventura County. Doing prep now, wondering if I should get sandbags

@Bardswan The weather models are saying only between an inch and 3 inches in Ventura County, at least in Thousand Oaks. No idea if that will pan out, but we're not in the bullseye.

@ai6yr @Bardswan Strongly recommend not to rely on absolute values of rainfall amounts from any global wx model. Unlike Florida, terrain matters a lot in SoCa and the global models don't have the resolution. NWS gridded forecasts are the best bet in this situation.

@AlaskaWx @Bardswan Thanks! Official NWS forecast not predicting much rain in our particular corner of the world; we have mountains to the east and south, which I think puts us in a big of a rain shadow.