ATLANTIC & PACIFIC HURRICANE ACTIVITY & PREDICTIONS 2014
Odile became a powerful Category 4 major hurricane before riding up the Baja California peninsula. She also was one of a handful of storms to which I was given early insight to.
Odile crossing over the Gulf of California on September 17
Tropical Storm Odile forms 220 miles SSW of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico on September 10
Personal Insights
Observations
With a major hurricane slicing right through California Sur there was no shortage of reports on damage, especially from Cabo San Lucas, where Odile made landfall. Click on the buttons below to read up on the related article.
Odile becomes the eighth major hurricane of the eastern North Pacific tropical cyclone season
image of Odile over Baja California on September 15 at 1835 UTC taken by NASA's Terra/MODIS satellite
Odile's aftermath in Baja California
On May 24, 2014 I was given the following information: September 16 – 17 there will be a storm riding up the Pacific coast. Whenever I receive dates pertaining to particular hurricane events the dates may be pointing to the beginning of an event, the climax or height of the ongoing phenomena or the tail end of an event.
This one actually encompasses two events in one. Odile became a Tropical Storm on September 10 and as you can see by the graph on the left she moved in closer to the Pacific coastal area and travesered northward eventually cutting over Baja California from September 14 through 16 and then moving over Mexico's mainland on the 17th.
Furthermore, the next storm, Polo, forms on September 16 and it too is set to move parallel to the shoreline for a bit of its' journey.
As early as September 04 NOAA begins stating that an area of low pressure is expected to form south or southwest of
the southern coast of Mexico in the coming days. On September 10 Tropical Depression Fifteen-E forms in the early morning hours and becomes Tropical Storm Odile by 0800 PDT. NOAA initially sets its projected track to hit the southernmost point of the Baja California but then adjusts it expecting the storm to pass to the west of the peninsula.
Over the next few days as Hurricane Odile keeps moving towards the Peninsula, NOAA slowly starts moving the anticipated path back towards the tip of the Baja. On September 15 Odile, now a Major Hurricane, makes landfall near Cabo San Lucas, California Sur and travels right up the peninsula before exiting near the northern end on the Gulf of California side. Then on September 17 Odile makes a second landfall as she comes ashore onto Mexico's mainland.