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A collage of all Category 5 Pacific hurricanes between 1994 and 2023 Hurricane Patricia shortly after its record peak intensity on October 23, 2015. This lists all of the Category 5 hurricanes in the order in which they formed according to the central and eastern Pacific HURDAT database, which dates back to 1949.
Tropical cyclones crossing from the western Pacific to the central Pacific are fairly rare, and this has happened only ten times. Of those ten times, six of them were storms which crossed the dateline twice; from the western to the central pacific and back (or vice versa). No tropical cyclone from the western Pacific has ever traveled east of ...
Of the 13 named storms, 5 developed into hurricanes, of which 3 intensified into major hurricanes. The season officially began on May 15 in the eastern Pacific basin (east of 140°W) and on June 1 in the central Pacific (between 140°W and the International Date Line); both ended on November 30.
For tropical cyclone warning purposes, the northern Pacific is divided into three regions: the eastern (North America to 140°W), central (140°W to 180°), and western (180° to 100°E), while the southern Pacific is divided into 2 sections, the Australian region (90°E to 160°E) and the southern Pacific basin between 160°E and 120°W. [1]
Jova was also one of the fastest–intensifying tropical cyclones on record in the Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone basin. [1] Jova was the tenth named storm, seventh hurricane, fifth major hurricane [a] of the 2023 Pacific hurricane season. Jova originated from a tropical wave that entered the Pacific Ocean on September 1. The system briskly ...
The minimum central pressure recorded on the island was 934 mbar at 0906 UTC on August 31. [28] The typhoon was expected to produce a storm surge of 18 ft (5.5 m) and wave heights of 40 ft (12 m) along Wake Island, where the highest point is 20 ft (6.1 m). Additionally, heavy rainfall from the typhoon left buildings flooded, with 2 ft (0.61 m ...
[3] [5] During 1957, two other tropical cyclones developed in the Central Pacific and were named Kanoa and Nina by the Hawaiian military meteorological offices. [5] It was subsequently decided that future tropical cyclones would be named by borrowing names from the Western Pacific naming lists. [6]
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