Hurricane Rick
I’ve written this before this season, that I do not normally pay attention to Pacific tropical weather. But this news is so bad that I felt I must comment.
In the last few days, a tropical storm, named Rick, has formed and strengthened to a hurricane. That is pretty much average for this season; hardly anything for the Atlantic because the Pacific is sucking up all our heat. And what a lot of heat.
Hurricane Rick is now officially a category five hurricane with winds of 160 MPH and higher gusts. Even though only Rick’s outer rain bands are brushing along the Mexican coast, the swells from this monster of a storm are probably causing havoc for Mexico. Rick’s direction is towards the northwest at the moment, but that is forecast to change in three days towards the northeast and straight for Baja, Mexico.
That’s the bad news. The bad-but-better news is that Rick’s winds are forecast to be about 120 MPH upon landfall, and diminish to about 70 MPH after that. That’s still pretty bad, but won’t lead to total devastation.
In the meantime, nothing of note is happening in the Atlantic. As it has not happened over the last week.