Pacific Hurricane Jimena approaches Baja Peninsula
by Sail-World on 31 Aug 2009
Hurricane Jimena Sunday evening SW
All USA west coast leisure sailors in the vicinity are warned that Hurricane Jimena, the 10th named storm for the season was approaching Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Sunday as a Category 4 storm according to forecasters.
The satellite image here shows Hurricane Jimena off the coast of Mexico early Sunday evening.
'There's a good chance this system could be a Category 5 in the next 24 hours,' said Dave Roberts, a hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center.
As of midday Sunday, Jimena was located about 225 nautical miles south of Cabo Correintes, Mexico, or about 400 nautical miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California, Roberts said. The storm is expected to continue in a north-northwest motion and approach the southwestern tip of Baja California sometime early Tuesday, he said.
Jimena is the 10th named storm of the Pacific season.
'It started out kind of slow for the Pacific,' said Robbie Berg, another specialist at the hurricane center. 'But actually August, now we've had seven named storms form, and that's pretty busy for August. We haven't seen that -- I think it's been a couple decades since we've seen that many storms in August.'
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