Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Jimena inland Baja California, Erika struggling to survive

Jimena made landfall this morning, but it missed Cabo San Lucas to the north. It was a Category 2 hurricane with 100mph winds, and has since weakened to a tropical storm inland. It has decoupled, it's low level center forecasted to move to the west into the Pacific and it's upper center forecasted to move to the northeast into mainland Mexico. Damage reports are still coming in, and we'll have more on that later.

Tropical Storm Erika has formed from Invest 94L in the Atlantic basin near the Leeward Islands. It is very poorly organized with multiple swirls. It'll have to reform it's main center under the circulation or turn into a trough and thus no longer be classified as a tropical cyclone. Even if it does survive for the next day or two, the mountains of Hispaniola which it is expected to interact with and increasing wind shear should cause it to dissipate within five days.

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