Julia made landfall near Laguna de Perlas, Nicaragua at 3:15 AM EDT Sunday, Oct 9, with maximum sustained estimated to be 85 MPH.

Much of the remnants of former Hurricane Julia have merged with a preexisting area of low pressure in the region, now draped from the southwestern Gulf in the Atlantic into the Gulf of Tehuantepec in the eastern Pacific. That system will likely not be classified as Julia as the low-level circulation of former Julia as best it can be tracked is still in the eastern Pacific. Furthermore, these remnants of Julia have merged with the broader area of low pressure mentioned above.

Where Julia's ghost surface circulation appears to still be, in the east Pac, there might be a better argument for name continuation in that basin, but once again, that is already more of a merger and less of a coherent continuation, also.

This entry has been updated with recent, timely scatterometer analysis. - Ciel