ATLANTIC & PACIFIC HURRICANE ACTIVITY & PREDICTIONS 2014
Hurricane Simon as a Category 3 hurricane antecedent to its peak as a Category 4 hurricane on October 4, 2014
Credit: National Environmental Visualization Laboratory, NASA
Simon becomes a Category 3 Major Hurricane October 04 at 1800
The humble beginnings of Simon on October 01 as a
Tropical
Depression
Personal Insights
Observations
Simon says, "I will be a major hurricane" but fortunately he stays away from land while showing off his strength.
Back at the start of the 2014 Hurricane Season I said that the female-named storms this year will be the more powerful ones. When Simon was just a Tropical Depression on October 01, a day after Hurricane Rachel became a Post-Tropical Depression, I sensed that Simon wanted to prove something. Simon says he wants to be a strong storm, that is the sense I got from him. To prove the point, on October 04 at 1100 hrs PDT Simon becomes a Category 3 Major Hurricane, with sustained winds of 115 mph. Interestingly NOAA's comments at 1400 hrs PDT stated, "SIMON SAYS IT IS A MAJOR HURRICANE TO A NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER
AIRCRAFT". Then by 2000 hrs PDT Simon becomes the first and only male-named Category 4 Hurricane of the eastern North Pacific Hurricane Season. However, that being said, Simon is the weakest of all the Category 4 Hurricanes, a trend that continues for the entire season.
On September 27, the NHC began monitoring a broad area of low pressure that had formed off the coast of southeastern Mexico, and assessed its' immediate development potential as low. Over the next several days, the system slowly began to organize, and by October 1, it had acquired enough deep convection to be considered a tropical cyclone, at which time the NHC initiated advisories on Tropical Depression Nineteen-E. By the next day, with banding features becoming better organized and the estimated center located directly below the deep convection, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Simon, the eighteenth of the Eastern Pacific season and nineteenth cyclone overall. from Wikipedia, the free encylopedia
On October 03 Simon becomes a hurricane 50 miles NW of Socorro Island. Then on the 4th Simon begins strengthening throughout the day finally peaking as a Category 4 Major Hurricane by 2000 hrs PDT with winds of 130 mph. Simon starts a rapid decline in intensity on the 5th while making his way towards the northern part of Baja California. By October 7 in the late evening Simon becomes a remnant low and over the course of the next couple of days brings rain to parts of the US Southwest with some flooding to the dessert areas.