The eastern Pacific hurricane season remains highly active, with recent storms Elida and Fausto also affecting Southern California and Hawaii.
The ongoing El Niño is expected to prolong the season and increase storm frequency, raising the potential for landfall threats to Mexico, Hawaii, and possibly California.
Typically, hurricane season winds down in October and November as cooler water temperatures and shifting atmospheric patterns reduce storm formation.
However, this year's El Niño may extend tropical activity, increasing the chance of storms traveling northward toward California.
California has experienced tropical system impacts before, such as heavy flooding from Hurricane Hillary's remnants three years ago, and a Category 1 hurricane made landfall in San Diego in 1858.
With ocean temperatures off San Diego warmer than usual this year, the risk of a hurricane reaching California's coast intact is low but higher than in previous years.
