Major Hurricane Jova Heading toward Mexico.

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Major Hurricane Jova Heading toward Mexico
Jova remains a major Category 3 hurricane as it moves slowly toward the southwest coast of Mexico. A favorable environment with warm ocean water and low wind shear will allow Jova to at least maintain its current strength, and it could even briefly reach Category 4 status tonight. Jova will gain speed and turn to the northeast by Tuesday morning and make landfall near Manzanillo, Mexico, Tuesday night as a strong Category 3 hurricane. Destructive winds, flooding rain and deadly landslides will occur along the coast as the storm pushes onshore. Some wind and rain will start to be felt along the coast starting tonight, with conditions deteriorating during the day Tuesday. After the storm makes landfall it will rapidly weaken as it moves over the mountainous terrain not far inland. Elsewhere in the Pacific, Irwin continues to struggle eastward as a tropical storm. Its appearance on satellite imagery is very ragged and it is expected to remain a tropical storm as it slowly moves eastward in the wake of Jova. It is possible that Irwin will bring more flooding rainfall later this week to similar locations that will get hit hard by Jova. An area of disturbed weather south of the Gulf of Tehuantepac has a moderate chance of developing into a tropical entity in the next few days. By AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Dave Dombek

Rikand

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1734947

Hurricane Jova slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 2 hurricane early Wednesday, swamping beach towns and causing floods in the mountains above before dropping to tropical storm force as it swept past Puerto Vallarta.

The storm toppled trees, knocked out power and flooded streets along the coast, which is studded with beach towns and anchored by the major seaport of Manzanillo, but the full extent of damage was still unclear early Wednesday.

One man was injured when he fell while trying to repair his roof during the storm, but there were no immediate reports of deaths, said civil defense duty officer Francisco Garnica. Power and communications in many of the towns along the coast had been knocked out by the hurricane.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Jova's maximum sustained winds were near 100 mph (160 kph) when it hit, but it weakened steadily as it moved inland and winds and it was down to tropical storm force by late morning, with winds of 65 mph (104 kph) by 10 a.m (11 a.m. EDT; 1500GMT).

irish1967

Is it a hurricane or a typhoon ? I thought hurricanes went alphabetically so J is long since gone.

Wertz

irish1967 wrote: »

Is it a hurricane or a typhoon ? I thought hurricanes went alphabetically so J is long since gone.

E Pacific storm

M.T. Cranium

It moved inland about 48 hours ago about 50 miles west of Manzanillo and a U.S. based storm chaser reported (on American Weather Forum) that it had a very intense core and could have been borderline cat-3 despite being ranked as cat-1 or low end cat-2 at 85 knots. He said there were gusts that went well over 100 knots and possibly over 120 knots. Severe local wind damage and flash flooding were noted and the local roads became impassable for the past two days. The system quickly fell apart over the Mexican Sierra Madre Occidentale range south of Guadalajara. Meanwhile, Irwin who was lurking around to the southwest has decided to drift back out to sea and fall apart there instead.

Rikand

that tropical depression that was hanging around central america, will anything come of that now that it seems to have almost moved off the Yucatan and into the caribbean/gulf of mexico

Wertz

Turned into a wide surface low and looks set to spin on it's spot and re-intensify. Big rainmaker for the yucatan if nothing else.

Wertz

Only a matter of time before this starts to intensify.



It's drawing moisture now from both pacific and caribbean...circulation seems to be centred somewhere between Cancun and the W tip of Cuba.
Certainly showing a lot of the classic looks for something that hasn't even been classed as a tropical depression (yet)

dsmythy

60% it's given as. Air Force plane will be flying through this afternoon.