Eastern North Pacific Season Starts Today

The North Pacific is a long way from Central Alabama, but today does mark the start of hurricane season for that part of the world. It also is a historic point in weather history because the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has also initiated the use of lowercase in their text products. Woohoo and hooray! I was not sure this day would come, but it is finally arriving as some NWS products covert over to the use of lowercase.

By the way, the Atlantic hurricane season is only about two week off starting on June 1st and lasting through the end of November.

-Brian-

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TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1100 AM PDT THU MAY 15 2014

For the eastern North Pacific…east of 140 degrees west longitude:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next five
days.

Today marks the first day of the eastern North Pacific hurricane
season, which will run until November 30. Long-term averages for
the number of named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes are
15, 8, and 4, respectively.

The list of names for 2014 is as follows:

Name Pronunciation Name Pronunciation
————————————————————-
Amanda uh-MAN-duh Marie muh-REE
Boris bor-EES Norbert NOR-bert
Cristina kris-TEE-nuh Odile oh-DEAL
Douglas DUG-luss Polo POH-loh
Elida ELL-ee-dah Rachel RAY-chull
Fausto FOW-sto Simon SY-muhn
Genevieve jeh-nuh-VEEV Trudy TROO-dee
Hernan her-NAHN Vance vanss
Iselle ee-SELL Winnie WIN-ee
Julio HOO-lee-o Xavier ZAY-vee-ur
Karina kur-REE-nuh Yolanda yo-LAHN-da
Lowell LO-uhl Zeke zeek

This product, the Tropical Weather Outlook, briefly describes
significant areas of disturbed weather and their potential for
tropical cyclone formation during the next five days. The
issuance times of this product are 5 AM, 11 AM, 5 PM, and 11 PM PDT.
After the change to standard time in November, the issuance times
are 4 AM, 10 AM, 4 PM, and 10 PM PST.

A Special Tropical Weather Outlook will be issued to provide
updates, as necessary, in between the regularly scheduled
Tropical Weather Outlooks. Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will
be issued under the same WMO and AWIPS headers as the regular
Tropical Weather Outlooks.

A standard package of products, consisting of the Tropical Cyclone
Public Advisory, the Forecast/Advisory, the Tropical Cyclone
Discussion, and the Wind Speed Probabilities, is issued every
six hours for all ongoing tropical cyclones. In addition, a
Special Advisory package may be issued at any time to advise of
significant unexpected changes or to modify watches or warnings.

The Tropical Cyclone Update is a brief statement to inform of
significant changes in a tropical cyclone or to post or cancel
watches or warnings. It is used in lieu of or to precede the
issuance of a Special Advisory. The Tropical Cyclone Updates, which
can be issued at any time, can be found under WMO header WTPZ61-65
KNHC, and under AWIPS header MIATCUEP1-5.

All National Hurricane Center text and graphical products are
available on the web at https://www.hurricanes.gov. You can also
interact with NHC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NWSNHC.
Notifications are available on Twitter when select National
Hurricane Center products are issued. Information about our east
Pacific Twitter feed is available at
https://www.hurricanes.gov/twitter.php.

$$
Forecaster Brown

Category: Alabama's Weather