The first tropical depression of the East Pacific Hurricane Season has just formed this morning., about 370 miles south-southwest of Mazatlan, Mexico. It is expected to move north and eventually north-northeast and strike the Mexican coast late Friday or early Saturday. It has time enough to intensify before then, and it is expected to become a tropical storm on Friday. If this occurs, then 2009 will beat 1994 for the latest naming of the first tropical cyclone of the season. (In 1994, the first storm was named early on June 19, here Tropical Depression #1-E is expected to become a named storm on the same day but several hours later).
The government of Mexico has issued a tropical storm watch for the Pacific Coast of mainland Mexico from Topolobampo southward to El Roblito and for Las Islas Marias. A tropical storm watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within the next 36 hours.
It has been very hot here in Texas. We are seeing temperatures typical of July and August yet it is only June. Will the remnants of Tropical Depression #1-E bring any rain? We'll see. Right now that doesn't seem very likely.
There is also another disturbance in the East Pacific southwest of where TD#1-E is at. Right now the National Hurricane Center doesn't think it will do much, but it has a chance of developing into a tropical depression.
More later.
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