00:00And joining us right now is hurricane expert, meteorologist Alex DaSilva.
00:05Alex, we already talked with you about the Atlantic season being over.
00:09Now we want to talk about what is yet to come in the central and eastern Pacific.
00:14Before we get to the forecast, though, wow, what a year we had in the Pacific Basin.
00:21Yeah, truly remarkable season that we've seen in the eastern and central Pacific basins thus far this hurricane season.
00:27If you look at the map here, we have all these hurricanes that you see here.
00:32And we didn't even put just the tropical storms on here because the screen would be so cluttered.
00:37These are all the storms that at least made it to hurricane strength or major hurricane strength.
00:42And you can see just how many you have all across the entirety of the basin, some of them impacting
00:47land,
00:47some of them obviously staying out over the open water.
00:50But truly a remarkable season.
00:52Didn't break the record for the most named storms in the eastern Pacific, but it did break the record for
00:58the highest ace.
00:59So that's essentially a measure of the strength and longevity of these tropical systems.
01:04So truly remarkable.
01:06What's eye-popping to me when you look at this map again, let's first talk about these are the only
01:11hurricanes.
01:13impacts along western Mexico, Polo, Rachel, Simon, Trudy got close.
01:20And then we had the impacts in Hawaii.
01:23So it's one thing to have a lot of storms, but there were multiple impacts in Mexico and Hawaii.
01:29Yeah, and let's not forget even Southern California got in on the action.
01:32Rachel moved into Southern California.
01:34And we were saying this since the beginning of the hurricane season, even before the hurricane season started.
01:39We were worried about El Nino this upcoming hurricane season.
01:43Of course, we got El Nino.
01:45And El Ninos typically yield much more activity in the eastern and central Pacific basin.
01:50And lo and behold, here we are.
01:52All right, let's talk about what's yet to come, Alex.
01:55Let's first talk.
01:56Well, the central and east Pacific, they're different basins.
02:00Let's talk about the eastern Pacific first.
02:02Yeah, pretty, again, pretty remarkable season here.
02:0520 named storms, 10 hurricanes, eight majors, and a lot of impacts to Mexico and Central America.
02:10What can we look forward to the rest of the hurricane season?
02:13Maybe another tropical storm.
02:15I'm seeing a lot of wind shear right now.
02:17But I will say this.
02:18We've seen one December storm on record in the eastern Pacific.
02:22That was Hurricane Winnie back in 1983.
02:25So it can happen even after the end of the hurricane season.
02:28We still have to keep an eye out.
02:30All right, let's talk about the central Pacific.
02:32Next here, Hawaii's just been battered by storms.
02:36But history tells us, even there, it's maybe another one, Alex, at worst?
02:42I think we can see another named storm in the basin.
02:45I do think that we're done with impacts in Hawaii.
02:48So I think that that's the good news.
02:49I think we're done with impacts in Mexico and Hawaii for the rest of the hurricane season.
02:53Now, we have seen December storms near Hawaii.
02:57Hurricane Nina, 1957, brought hurricane-force winds to Honolulu.
03:02Now, you're talking about the wind shear.
03:04It is November, though, Alex, right?
03:07This is not anything that we're not used to seeing.
03:10Exactly.
03:11Toward the end of the hurricane season, you always get an increase in wind shear, even during El Nino years
03:15in the eastern Pacific.
03:16So it's completely normal for there to be a lot of wind shear.
03:20We should see the season wind down.
03:21Maybe we see another storm.
03:23But, again, no additional direct impacts to land are expected.
03:26It's been quite a season in the eastern Pacific.
03:28You and the team expected that to be the case, and it certainly was.
03:33All right, hurricane expert Alex Da Silva.
03:35We'll see you next time.
