The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season formed early Monday morning off the Southwest coast of Mexico. The East Pacific hurricane season begins earlier than our Atlantic season, on May 15. However, Tropical Storm Andres is a little late to kick off the Eastern Pacific season this year. This is the latest into the season for the first named storm to form in 40 years. Still, better late than never, right? Although...I'm sure there are a lot of folks on the Western coast of Mexico and Southern
Baja hoping Andres merely brushes past them instead of making a direct landfall.
Tropical Storm Andres is expected to strengthen to hurricane status by Tuesday, as the storm continues to move over very warm ocean waters. You can keep up with the latest on Andres
here.
As of Monday morning, there is still no tropical cyclone activity in the
Atlantic Basin. We have yet to see our first named storm of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season. However, we have at least already had our first tropical depression of the year, Tropical Depression One from May 28-29. You can read a summary of that storm
here.
--Carrie
