NHC eyes tropical disturbance south of Mexico in Eastern Pacific
Mexico’s national weather service said that an average season is expected in the Eastern Pacific, with 15-18 named storms. Between seven and nine of those storms are expected to become hurricanes, with a few becoming major hurricanes.
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A tropical disturbance in the Eastern Pacific Ocean has a low chance of development over the next week.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave that has formed a couple of hundred miles west of the coast of Central America and is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
"Development of this system appears unlikely while it moves slowly westward well to the south of the coast of Mexico through the weekend and early next week," the NHC wrote in its outlook.
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This comes just two weeks after the official start of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season on May 15. NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center, in coordination with the agency’s Climate Prediction Center, expects 1-4 tropical cyclones to traverse the ocean, which is below the typical 4-5 tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes.
The first named storm in the Eastern Pacific will be Aletta.
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In 2023, the names of Dora and Otis were retired from the Eastern Pacific naming list after the storms were connected to devastation in Hawaii and Acapulco, Mexico.