ATLANTIC & PACIFIC HURRICANE ACTIVITY & PREDICTIONS 2014
Tropical Storm Fausto on July 8 followed closely by a low pressure
Tropical Storm Fausto's Projected Track on
July 8 at
2000 PDT
Which area will form first?
Personal Insights
Observations
Tropical Depression Six-E forms on July 7 and quietly moves about for less than 48 hours as Tropical Storm Fausto
With Tropical Storm Fausto I can't claim to have had much insight on him. Fausto became a storm on July 7 and when I saw it I was wondering why I wasn't picking up on anything regarding this new storm. NOAA was monitoring two potential areas close to one another and I was wondering at first if we were going to see another pair of storms similar to Douglas and Elida. I did sense that Fausto will be a 'non-event' as far as anything major happening with him or his affects to land. He was heading in a path that would take him to the Hawaiian Islands but again sensed nothing of note here. I labelled him as TS Fausto - the quiet one. In regards to the other area of potential for some development, I came to realize by earthquake pairings that Fausto will be alone on this journey, however the next set of storms should be pairing up again; in fact, two more sets back to back.
On July 6 NOAA was tracking two areas of low pressure and at first anticipated the one further east to have a greater potential for cyclone development (as depicted in the image above). On the morning of the 7th it was the same scenario but then winds started to pick up and suddenly the system to the west had a greater potential for further development.
Tropical Storm Fausto appeared to be heading towards the Hawaiian Islands (seen to the far left on the graph above) as an eventual Tropical Depression but by July 9 at 0800 PDT (1500 UTC) Fausto dissipates to a remnant low. The low pressure area that was to the east of Tropical Depression Six-E on July 6 and appeared to be 'chasing' Fausto was monitored by NOAA for a few days but it never got organized.
July 09 at 0800 PDT(1500 UTC)
On July 9 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT) Fausto's circulation was no longer apparent on visible imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite and System 98E was located to the east of Fausto. Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project