Because everything else going on isn't quite enough. 6.1 Earthquake near Kings Canyon National Park

[onecaliberal]

[marlakay]

1. I am assuming this will be a bad hurricane

Year and worst fire season, I mean what else?!

[CentralMass]

2. A volcanic eruption perhaps? As far as what else could happen.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. My thought, also.

Mt. Shasta in Cal, Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker in Wash. state, are all capable of blowing, and have, in the not so distant past.
Rainer was burping as Mt. St. Helens was building to erupt.

And then there is Yellowstone.........

[2naSalit]

10. So far...

It's quiet around Jellystone.

[malaise]

6. Busy Atlantic hurricane season predicted for 2020

https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/busy-atlantic-hurricane-season-predicted-for-2020
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An above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is expected, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. The outlook predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of a below-normal season. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30.
A view from the flight deck of a NOAA WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft as the team flies into Hurricane Harvey on August 24, 2017.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a likely range of 13 to 19 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 6 to 10 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 3 to 6 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA provides these ranges with a 70% confidence. An average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, of which 6 become hurricanes, including 3 major hurricanes. [Watch this video summary of the Outlook.

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So far we have had four named storms - the Sahara Dust is keeping things quiet for now

[jimfields33]

9. I wish the Sahara dust storm came in September

That would help September and October. Our worst months.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. However ...

This is 2020. That Saharan dust will fall on all the islands, resurrect as Boris Karloff ancient Egyptian curse zombie mummies and attack all living things. (Well, if all the documentaries I've seen from Hollyweird are correct, the ones most at risk will be scantily-clad white women who are prone to fainting and wearing platinum wigs).

Meanwhile, the Yellowstone caldera will reawaken to create a new inland sea from the Rockies to the Mississippi River, just in time for its beaches to become tropical rainforests from the rain coming from the Siberian melt-down, due to the climate crisis.

At least we ain't got locusts.

[SoCalNative]

3. This one, perhaps?

Downgraded to 5.8

https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/6-1-magnitude-earthquake-in-inyo-county-felt-in-bakersfield-on-wednesday/

[onecaliberal]

5. It shook really good here and I am 85 miles away from that. There have been at least 3 aftershocks

that we felt.

[agingdem]

4. a couple of weeks into stay-in-place

I was sitting in my chair watching a movie when I felt the ground shift below my feet...an earthquake in Mentone Texas could be felt in Odessa and El Paso..so I get it...I remember having a laugh-out-loud moment...it just seemed to so strangely perfect...and a few weeks later Passover was canceled due to plague...the Chinese curse..."may you live in interesting times" comes to mind

[Bayard]

7. Yikes!

I used to live right down the road from King's Canyon. Really rare to get anything up that far in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Will have to check on some old friends....

[UTUSN]

11. Had to google: East of Fresno, halfway between SF & LA

[onecaliberal]

13. Fresno is about 90 miles from the park. About 3.5 hours from SF and 4.5 to 5 hours from LA

[nilram]

14. Don't worry, Mammoth Mountain hasn't erupted in 57,000 years