Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Tropical Storm Virgil?

Hurricane Otto is moseying along in the southwest Caribbean Sea as we wake up on this Thanksgiving eve.   The storm is forecast to be a rare landfall in Nicaragua, or maybe even be the 2nd landfall ever in Costa Rica (the first since 1887, per Weather Underground).  There's another storyline that hasn't been mentioned anywhere I have noticed in NHC discussions or in the world of meteorology blogs.  Note the track:

We are looking at having the first dual-basin storm in 20 years.  The last was Hurricane Cesar-Douglas in 1996.  If this did happen, Otto would exit Nicaragua/Costa Rica and reemerge in the Eastern Pacific Ocean as Tropical Storm Virgil.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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