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!