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First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season
      Thu May 15 2008 09:18 AM

Update - Thursday- 05/29, 9:45AM
Eastern Pacific Tropical Depression 1-E has been named as Tropical Storm Alma.
Update - Thursday- 05/29, 7:45AM
The first Tropical Depression of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season has formed, it is forecast to become a tropical storm (Alma) before making landfall in western Nicaragua. Flhurricane is primarily an Atlantic Basin Site, please the National Hurricane Center for more information on Eastern Pacific Tropical Depression 1-E.



Update - Friday - 05/23, Noon (EDST)
As the 'official' start of the season approaches, the basin remains on the quiet side. Easterly waves have started their development over tropical Africa and fall apart as they exit into the still cool waters of the eastern tropical Atlantic. The ITCZ remains at low latitude (about 3N to 5N) and a strong shear zone exists in the central subtropical and tropical northern Atlantic between two upper level ridges.

The GFS model continues to suggest long term development in the far western Caribbean Sea east of Belize and north of Honduras - but nothing really there at the moment. Its just an interesting area at his time of year to keep a casual eye on. See the excellent post below by dem05 for more on this.
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Now that the East Pacific Hurricane Season is underway, we gear up for the Atlantic June 1st. With that the NOAA has released today their 2008 Atlantic Basin tropical climate assessment.
Near Normal or Above Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season and explanation can be found here.

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May 15th, today, is the first day of the East Pacific Hurricane Season. It predates the Atlantic one by 15 days. The Atlantic Hurricane season will begin on June 1st.

There is nothing worth note in the Eastern Pacific right now, however. This site rarely talks about East Pacfiic systems (or other basins) but instead focuses on the Atlantic systems.

That said it wouldn't be possible to mention Tropical Cyclone Nargis that made landfall in Myanmar on May 4th/5th, a borderline category 3/4 storm when it hit, it killed 10s of thousands, mostly due to lack of warning. (In the local newspaper there there was a minor mention of it two days before, with "50 MPH" winds and a lot of rain as the only thing mentioned) A catastrophic political communications failure greatly contributed to the deaths there.
A discussion on the system can be found here.

Back home, last years retired names round up is: Dean, a Category 5 that made landfall in the Yucatan. Felix, yet another category 5 that made landfall in northern Honduras (First time recorded that two category 5 systems made landfall as category 5's in one year), and Noel, which ran up the east coast and up to Nova Scotia. It made category 1 hurricane strength in the Northwestern Bahamas. It's impact on deaths in Haiti (around 150) and other parts of the Caribbean contributed (Map of Dean, Felix and Noel)



We'll be ready for the coming season with more news updates and commentary as we watch the Atlantic Basin. I expect another somewhat active year.

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* First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season MikeCAdministrator Thu May 15 2008 09:18 AM
. * * Re: clear CDO there... shows well on NRL site close up LoisCane   Thu May 29 2008 05:25 PM
. * * Re: clear CDO there... shows well on NRL site close up MichaelA   Thu May 29 2008 04:34 PM
. * * Re: clear CDO there... shows well on NRL site close up doug   Thu May 29 2008 04:29 PM
. * * Re: clear CDO there... shows well on NRL site close up cieldumort   Thu May 29 2008 04:11 PM
. * * clear CDO there... shows well on NRL site close up LoisCane   Thu May 29 2008 03:52 PM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season hofloka   Thu May 29 2008 03:16 PM
. * * Tropical Depression 1E Now Tropical Storm Alma cchsweatherman   Thu May 29 2008 12:53 PM
. * * Re: TD 01E punkyg   Thu May 29 2008 11:57 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E cieldumort   Thu May 29 2008 09:36 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E scottsvb   Thu May 29 2008 04:56 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E dem05   Thu May 29 2008 04:03 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E danielwAdministrator   Thu May 29 2008 04:01 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E Clark   Thu May 29 2008 03:30 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E HanKFranK   Thu May 29 2008 02:16 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E dem05   Thu May 29 2008 02:06 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E dem05   Thu May 29 2008 01:51 AM
. * * Re: TD 01E Hugh   Thu May 29 2008 01:50 AM
. * * TD 01E cieldumort   Thu May 29 2008 01:24 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E cieldumort   Thu May 29 2008 12:54 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E dem05   Thu May 29 2008 12:29 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E HurricaneKid   Thu May 29 2008 12:09 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E cieldumort   Wed May 28 2008 11:48 PM
. * * Re: Invest 90E dem05   Wed May 28 2008 09:43 PM
. * * Re: Invest 90E scottsvb   Wed May 28 2008 06:45 PM
. * * Re: Invest 90E Storm Hunter   Wed May 28 2008 06:24 PM
. * * Re: Invest 90E Maitland, FL   Wed May 28 2008 03:37 PM
. * * Re: Invest 90E rmbjoe1954   Wed May 28 2008 01:16 PM
. * * Re: Invest 90E cieldumort   Wed May 28 2008 07:19 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E danielwAdministrator   Wed May 28 2008 04:02 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E dem05   Wed May 28 2008 03:03 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E Storm Hunter   Wed May 28 2008 01:26 AM
. * * Re: Invest 90E rmbjoe1954   Tue May 27 2008 08:26 PM
. * * Invest 90E cchsweatherman   Tue May 27 2008 06:51 PM
. * * Re: this week C.A.   Tue May 27 2008 03:34 PM
. * * Re: this week scottsvb   Mon May 26 2008 06:45 PM
. * * this week Storm Hunter   Mon May 26 2008 05:40 PM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season weatherguy08   Mon May 26 2008 05:01 PM
. * * Re: this weeks tropics scottsvb   Mon May 26 2008 05:54 AM
. * * this weeks tropics Storm Hunter   Mon May 26 2008 05:09 AM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Storm Hunter   Sun May 25 2008 03:53 PM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season typhoon_tip   Sat May 24 2008 06:40 PM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season craigm   Fri May 23 2008 11:23 PM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season allan   Fri May 23 2008 09:42 PM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season scottsvb   Fri May 23 2008 07:00 AM
. * * Re: First Day of Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season dem05   Fri May 23 2008 05:06 AM

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