Tuesday, November 22, 2016

typhoon Norbert transferring up Mexico’s West Coast; Strengthening predicted



The national typhoon center in Miami is tracking storm Norbert, the 14th named Western Pacific storm of the season, as it movements up the West coast of Mexico closer to the Baja Peninsula.
The NHC’s maximum latest bulletin at 2:00 A.M. PDT located Norbert’s center at approximately one hundred sixty five miles – 265 kms – south of the southern tip of Baja California with most sustained winds of eighty mph – a hundred thirty km/h with “gradual strengthening expected all through the subsequent 24 hours.” hurricane pressure winds increase outward up to 25 miles – 35 kms from the center, and tropical hurricane force winds amplify outward up to one hundred and five miles – a hundred sixty five kms.
The typhoon is presently shifting northwest at 6 mph – nine km/h, and is “expected to continue in the course of the subsequent couple of days,” the NHC stated. “on the forecast song the middle of the hurricane is predicted to technique the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula nowadays, and pass almost parallel to the pacific coast of the peninsula tonight and Friday.”
A tropical hurricane warning is in impact from los angeles Paz to Cabo San Lazaro, and a tropical hurricane watch is in effect north of Cabo San Lazaro to Puerto San Andresito and north of l.  a. Paz to San Evaristo.
The NHC forecast that Norbert would “produce rainfall quantities of 3 to five inches over the southern part of the Baja California Peninsula through Friday.” It additionally warned of surf and huge swells that “will have an effect on quantities of the southwestern coast of Mexico nowadays. The swells will steadily spread northward into the southern Gulf of California and along the coast of southern Baja California Sur thru Friday” and could produce risky surf conditions and rip currents.
at the forecast music Norbert would continue to be in pretty close to the coast of Baja California, and could have some effect on Southern California. It isn't expected to be off the coast of the U.S. mainland till subsequent Monday or Tuesday.

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