No hurricanes in the Pacific.
Typhoons are what we USED to call them until the GW folks wanted to increase the number of hurricanes.
I grew up on the Oregon coast and we NEVER had a hurricane. I recall the anemometer on our house pegging at 110 MPH then flying off the roof.
We called it a coastal storm and then replaced windows...
LOL! And I thought us Texans were tough. ;{)
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cyclone.html
>>>Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, the term “hurricane” is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a “typhoon” and “cyclones” occur in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.<<<
Richard Dana in Two Years Before the Mast talks about old timers in pre-gold Rush California saying they used to have big storms hit the California coast from the south. One reason California was so isolated was because of the difficulty of sailing to it from Mexico—against the prevailing northwest wind—and the lack of harbor shelter from these southern storms. But then the climate changed (as apparently it is wont to do) and the southern storms—hurricanes— became forgotten on the west coast.