{"id":274949,"date":"2023-08-22T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274949"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:52:22","slug":"hurricane-hilary-unprecedented-the-bbc-would-like-you-to-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274949","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Hilary Unprecedented? The BBC Would Like You To Think\u00a0So"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are huge amounts of misinformation in this BBC report:<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/world-us-canada-66566483<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC want you to think this is all record breaking and unprecedented. It is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hilary is a very similar event to the 1939 tropical storm, El\u00a0Cordonazo,<\/a>which followed a similar path and dumped similar amounts of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indeed that was one of four tropical storms to hit Southern California in 1939, although the others did not make landfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for the silly little theory from Ms Treseder, our ecology expert. Maybe the BBC should get advice from proper hurricane experts in future, who would tell them that these storms are rare, but sometimes happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claims about record rainfall are bogus as well. The BBC focus heavily on \u201crecord rainfall\u201d in Palm Springs, but even that is a fake claim. They say that 3.18\u201d fell on Sunday, but that was less than the 3.22\u201d recorded in 1926:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In any event, one cherry picked station does not prove anything at all, The BBC also claim that this was the wettest August day on record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This, of course, is utterly dishonest, as it was nowhere being a record in Los Angeles, or California as a whole, merely a record for August at most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Los Angeles, for instance, daily rainfall of 2\u201d is nothing unusual at all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As for California\u2019s wettest day, this is an outright fraud .Hilary dumped 11\u201d or so up in the mountains, but at lower levels it was around 2 or 3\u201d\u00a0 at most, as the BBC map indicates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/discussions\/nfdscc4.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the 1939 storm was much more devastating, with 5\u201d in Los Angeles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1939_California_tropical_storm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the devastation from Kathleen in 1976 was even greater:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Kathleen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainfall from Hilary has not reached anything like the 375mm recorded in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So once again we find that the BBC can get away with playing fast and loose with the facts, just so that it can promote its political agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So once again we find that the BBC can get away with playing fast and loose with the facts, just so that it can promote its political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":274970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818389,691819743,691821996,691820528],"class_list":{"0":"post-274949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-climate-propaganda","10":"tag-hurricane-hilary","11":"tag-misinformation","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/013673460_081923-kgo-ap-noaa-hurricane-hilary-img.jpg?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-19wF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":346532,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346532","url_meta":{"origin":274949,"position":0},"title":"BBC Weather App Predicts 15,000mph Winds in Oxford Circus and 404\u00b0C Temperatures","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The BBC Weather app incorrectly forecast winds of 15,000mph in Oxford Circus and temperatures of 404\u00b0C in Nottingham amid a countrywide software failure.","rel":"","context":"In \"BBC\"","block_context":{"text":"BBC","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bbc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/00Screenshot-2024-10-12-180840.png?fit=1167%2C739&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/00Screenshot-2024-10-12-180840.png?fit=1167%2C739&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/00Screenshot-2024-10-12-180840.png?fit=1167%2C739&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/00Screenshot-2024-10-12-180840.png?fit=1167%2C739&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/00Screenshot-2024-10-12-180840.png?fit=1167%2C739&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":343843,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=343843","url_meta":{"origin":274949,"position":1},"title":"No, BBC\u2013North Carolina Floods Were Not \u201cHistoric\u201d","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/09\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Certainly the floods this month were minor in comparison with the devastation wrought by Dennis and Floyd. 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