I want to be very careful with what I say in this article, because the forecasts that I am going to discuss are not completely certain. Meteorologists are telling us that a tropical disturbance in the Pacific Ocean known as “95E” has now become a named storm known as Tropical Storm Marie. That just happened a little while ago. It is expected that Tropical Storm Marie will develop into a hurricane, and some models indicate that it could move in a northerly direction toward Southern California. If this storm were to make landfall in California as a hurricane, that would be an extremely unusual event, because no hurricane has ever made landfall in the entire recorded history of the state of California.

Last week, we were closely watching another storm named Karina.