mekka okereke 

Weather service: We don't get hurricanes in the California Bay Area. Our ocean is peaceful! That's why we call it the Pacific! I love you lil bro!🤗

Also weather service: Warning citizen! Prepare for the hurricane shaped storm that will drop hurricane amounts of rain, and knock your trees over with hurricane force winds! But it's not a hurricane! Never call it a hurricane! We call it either a Pineapple Express, or a Unicorn Sprinkle, or a Gumdrop Hug! Pick up sand bags instead of weed today!🦄🌼☮️✌🏻

Jan 4, 2023 at 2:22pmWeb
Show threadmekka okereke Jan 4, 2023

In before amateur meteorologists tell me that 65 mph winds are not 75mph winds.🙂

I lived in Houston. Yes, I know what a real hurricane is.

I'm just complaining because I was told that it never rains in Southern California.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3yNibj8LW-Q

Tony! Toni! Tone! - It Never Rains (In Southern California)

YouTube
Show threadelena perezJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke right? my first blustery-cold-rainy January in Los Angeles had me ready to speak to a manager
Show threadLocksmithJan 4, 2023
@elenaperez @mekkaokereke That would be God, but they haven't been taking calls since Christmas. Insiders tell that God is on PTO and binge-watching Travelers on Netflix.
Show threadPaul CantrellJan 4, 2023
@elenaperez @mekkaokereke It is important to have all you folks in temperate places complaining about stuff like this so we can feel smug with ourselves here in Minnesota, so thank you for your service.
Show threadelena perezJan 4, 2023
@inthehands @mekkaokereke lol, you're welcome
Show threadDan SinkerJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke I work with a lot of folks in LA and every year around this time they get rain and they talk about how weird it is that it's raining because it never rains in LA
Show threadmekka okereke Jan 4, 2023
@dansinker And then we act genuinely surprised every time! Like playing peekaboo with a baby!
Show threadDan SinkerJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke For real though. I've even recounted previous years where they've experienced big rains they've told me about and they sort of blankly stare at me.
Show threadLittleGoatGirlJan 4, 2023
@dansinker @mekkaokereke Grew up in LA and my jr high (Paul Revere) was at the bottom of Mandeville Canyon Rd. Where do you think folks went every time it flooded?
Show threadryanbmarxJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke @dansinker This reminds me of how folks who live south of the Midwest forget about snow. My friend, you live north of the Ohio River. It snows every year.
Show threadMatildaJan 4, 2023
@ryanbmarx @mekkaokereke @dansinker When I moved to Philly from CA years ago the city was forever getting shut down when even a few inches of snow fell because they had deemed investing in proper snow plows financially unnecessary. Made no sense to me.
Show threadAutisticTeacherGriffJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke The Bay Area isn’t SoCal.
Show threadmekka okereke Jan 4, 2023
@TeacherGriff It's not?! OMG that explains so much!
Show threadAutisticTeacherGriffJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke I’m just saying this may be the source of your confusion ;)
Show threadLittleGoatGirlJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke @TeacherGriff some folks just dont get song references... they are not my people... Unfortunately I married on so there is that...
Show threadAutisticTeacherGriffJan 4, 2023

@aliza @mekkaokereke

Oh, I get song references, as long as they're from musical theater.

Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)Jan 4, 2023

@mekkaokereke "...but it pours, man it pours."

El Niño winters are a thing.

There's a scene of a flooded LA Basin as a result of an "atmospheric river" event in Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future" which feels like it could happen any year now.

Fire followed by flood is a weather one-two punch in LA's hills and canyons. (edit: jolls -> hills)

Show threaddr2chaseJan 4, 2023

@mekkaokereke

If CA had actual hurricanes, pretty sure it wouldn't have those tall-ass trees. (and OMFG I would not want to be anywhere near those forests during a real one).

Show threadJohn DahlquistJan 4, 2023
@dr2chase @mekkaokereke You'd probably be safer there than anywhere else in the surrounding area. Sequoias/Redwoods have an interweaving root system that allow the trees to literally help each other stand tall, even if their roots don't go that deep.
Show threadmekka okereke Jan 4, 2023

@Agent17 @dr2chase

Sure...

*Jay-Z looking up dot gif*

Show threadJustin MaxwellJan 4, 2023
@Agent17 @dr2chase @mekkaokereke exactly. The (non-native) eucalyptus are the ones that fall in the storms.
Show threadMatildaJan 4, 2023
@Agent17 @dr2chase @mekkaokereke Also good for when Godzilla turns up. Stay away from bridges!
Show threadJohn DahlquistJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke Yeah, I lived for a couple years in San Diego, and I think I could count on one hand the number of days it rained during that time. SoCal is weird.
Show threadMatt McIrvinJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke We have this problem in New England too--tropical storms and hurricanes only occasionally hit this far north and when they do, often they've gone "extratropical", like the northeasters we get all the time... but that doesn't mean they're not dangerous, it's just a technical statement about their energy source.
Show threadwaiting for the rainJan 4, 2023

@mekkaokereke in my experience, drizzly peaceful rains are rare in Southern California but serious storms happen in the winter about as often as they do in the northeastern US. Although in Northern California they get that and call it ‘San Francisco fog’ because they don’t want to admit it rains. Rain between April and October is unheard of, but November-March is fair game.

#rain

Show threadJustin MaxwellJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke that socal rain thing such a weird claim to make to anyone though. Every El Niño cycle would sweep cars away and topple eucalyptus in the inland empire for the 9 years I lived there. Like nobody could live there and miss those events.
Show threadAutisticMumTo3Jan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke
Even deserts usually get the occasional bit of rain
Show threadKristin BransonJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke To be fair, that song is 30 years old 😀 . Having grown up in San Diego, I recommend not leaving your home -- we Southern Californians do not know how to behave on those hypothetical rainy days. Stay safe!
Show threadLoukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke this sounds like the updated climate change verse to California Über Alles :)
Show threadBanie01Jan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke Hurricanes in the #Atlantic and #Typhoon in the #Pacific
Show threadmekka okereke Jan 4, 2023
@banie01 Not quite. Once it crosses Stevens Creek Boulevard, it's a Unicorn Sprinkle Del Niño.
Show threadChris StevensonJan 4, 2023
@mekkaokereke that last line is quintessential SF
Show threadOmar JarjurJan 5, 2023
@mekkaokereke For some reason, the word “typhoon” doesn’t strike the same level of fear in me that “hurricane” does, even though they are the exact same thing just in different oceans.
Show threadWhoMeWorried?Jan 5, 2023
@mekkaokereke Its true, the Pacific does not have hurricanes. We have taifuns instead.
Show threadElric the damnedJan 5, 2023
@mekkaokereke hahaha