Pacific Ocean Hurricane Norbert heads toward El Paso, TX

National Hurricane Center -- 5 Day Track ^

[topher]

The storm is forecast to be a TROPICAL DEPRESSION when it reaches the El Paso, Texas area on Sunday Morning/Afternoon. It is expected to dissipate into a low pressure center in that area... Just some wind for the El Paso area.

Fox News reports the storm is a Category 3 Hurricane as it is set to strike the Baja Peninsula, and Mexican mainland.

Also of interest is (Fox News story):

Fox News: Hurricane Norbert Strengthens to Category 3 Storm

LA PAZ, Mexico — As Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, it gathered strength overnight and was classified as a Category 3 hurricane early Saturday.

[topher]

This might funnel some moisture into the desert Southwest (New Mexico/Arizona) as well Texas.

[topher]

Should have inserted the 5 Day track:

[stentorian conservative]

I know EP sure doesn't need anymore rain. West of EP probably does.

BTW, when was the last time a hurricane hit that part of the world? Seems odd to me for some reason. But then again, I'm not a weather watcher. . .

[Joe Boucher]

Should be interesting to watch how much rain falls in the South East portion of New Mexico and West Texas. Both are essentially deserts that normally don’t get 10 inches of rain in a year.
Dey gulches will fill up and wash away lots.

[cabojoe]

Happens down there every year at this time.

[cabojoe]

I’ve been watching that one since it was below Acapulco. My father was supposed to fly down to Cabo to fish last week, but on his way down the mountains to the airport he swerved to miss a deer in the early morning and rolled his truck 360 degrees. He was shook up pretty bad and couldn’t make his flight. The port in Cabo has been closed, so he wouldn’t be fishing anyways if he had made it.

[Fresh Wind]

I wonder how many illegals will blow in with the storm?

[Vaquero]

[GodfearingTexan]

I thought storms like this in the PACIFIC were called cyclones, not hurricanes. Am I wrong?

[Bobalu]

I now have 2 big storms headed toward me here in the desert southwest...Norbert and the one on Nov4. :-(

[MeekOneGOP]

Rut-Roh, Reorge !

:)

[PAR35]

No hurricane ping?

[PAR35]

I thought storms like this in the PACIFIC were called cyclones, not hurricanes. Am I wrong?

Partially. The ones in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans are called cyclones. The ones in the north Atlantic, Gulf, and eastern Pacific are called hurricanes.

[CPOSharky]

Near the SE corner of AZ, one inch of rain overnight.

[topher]

The National Hurricane Center calls it a Hurricane, not a Cyclone.

Typhoons in the Western Pacific.

From what Wikipedia has, all tropical systems are cyclones (that is what wikipedia writes, and if you enter hurricane, you will be re-directed to the cyclone entry).

Both Fox News and the National Weather Service used the term Hurricane for this storm.

I did put Pacific in the title because I did not want people to think there was a Cat 3 storm in the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic. Some people might get upset about another hurricane in that area...

[topher]

Storm is now degraded to Cat 2 (per Fox News). Should fall apart rapidly as it hits the continental divide...

[Mjaye]

Not to make light of hurricanes, but no self-respecting, dangerous hurricane would be called “Norbert”. Can we look forward to Hurricane Percy?

[justlurking]

Not to make light of hurricanes, but no self-respecting, dangerous hurricane would be called “Norbert”. Can we look forward to Hurricane Percy?

Maybe next year there will be Hurricane Hollingsworth and Hurricane Irving.

[txhurl]

Notice they’ve never put ‘Jesus’ (hay-soos) on the list.

[topher]

We have Tropical Storm Nana in the Atlantic now...