 Despite its long coastline, California is not vulnerable to tropical cyclones.Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" west, California has only been hit with two tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los Angeles Area and interior deserts and Tropical Storm Nora.The remnants of tropical systems will affect California more commonly, every several years.