2014 East Pac hurricane season has set some records already
Posted by Bret B
on September 16, 2014, 7:27 pm
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Jeff Masters' Weather Underground blog today lists some interesting records and trivia about our very active Eastern Pacific hurricane season so far:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2800
Here's an excerpt, but there's more in the blog:
"...The strongest May hurricane on record: Category 4 Amanda (155 mph winds)
-Persistent Genevieve, which visited three basins and blossomed into a Category 5 monster
-Twin hurricanes Iselle and Julio threatening Hawaii
-Iselle, with 60 mph winds, the strongest named storm on record to hit the Big Island of Hawaii
-Karina, the seventh longest-lived Eastern Pacific storm
-Category 5 Marie (160 mph winds), the sixth strongest Eastern Pacific hurricane on record
-Category 3 Norbert, which put a sliver of California in its TS cone and fed into Phoenix's wettest day in history
-Odile, the strongest hurricane to ever hit Baja and the twelfth strongest Eastern Pacific hurricane on record
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He also shows some of the damage Baja suffered from Odile yesterday (i.e. the Cabo San Lucas airport is heavily damaged and won't reopen until next month...)
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