Hurricane Emilia formed in the eastern Pacific early Monday and is expected to become a major hurricane sometime Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said.
At 2 a.m. PT, the Category One storm with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph was about 760 miles south of the southern tip of Baja California and moving west-northwest at 12 mph, forecasters said.
Emilia is strengthening rapidly and is forecast to become a Category Two storm later on Monday and a Category Three, or major hurricane, with maximum sustained winds above 111 mph, on Tuesday, the hurricane center said.
Emilia posed no threat to land, however, and no coastal watches or warnings are in effect.
Emilia is the fourth Pacific hurricane of the season. Hurricane Daniel formed Friday and early Monday was a strong Category One storm with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph.
Daniel was about 1,270 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja and moving west at 15 mph.
It was expected to weaken to tropical storm status sometime Monday as it encounters colder waters in the Pacific.
Daniel also posed no threat to land.
D Rock:
Bit of a stretch to blame Obama for a hurricane, and anything to do with NASA, which of course, he did not found...
Yeah, it should be obvious the hurricane is god's way of telling us to execute the Kardashians, already.
Lol...I know, right?
Well, of course, it's Bush's fault.............!
Here i am, Rock you like a hurricane.
Now that made me laugh...
"Posed no threat to land" why even bring it up then, waste of real news space.
Off the top: threat to shipping, cruise lines, weather effects for coastal U.S., high surf, etc.
Why bring it up, you ask? Because it's interesting to some of us. Might I ask...if you aren't interested, why did you read and comment on it? And I don't think there's any shortage of "real news space".
Her parents must be proud.
I can. (blame Bush for hurricanes) His pollution is making water take longer to evaporate just like the rest of US, who account for 1/3 of the worlds pollution while being 4% of the worlds population.
The picture reminds me of Van Gogh's "Starry Night".
Oh great, now I've got that Don McLean song stuck in my head...Starry, starry niiiiggghhhht...