06/19/2025
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This is not normal. While the Atlantic basin is dead quiet so far this hurricane season, the Eastern Pacific is cranking out storm after storm, including now category 3 Hurricane Erick. This is highly unusual for a storm to get this strong so close to Mexico so early in the season. In fact, I can't find a major hurricane landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast in the historic record before September!
We're keeping you up-to-date on what's happening in the tropics all season long here: abc13.com/tropicalupdate
Update: Erik attained category 4 intensity overnight then dropped back to cat 3 as it made landfall this morning in extreme western Oaxaca, Mexico just east of Punta Maldonado. The estimated peak winds at landfall were 125 mph. The previous record for the earliest major Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico east of Acapulco was last year when Hurricane John made landfall on the night of September 23. In fact, only 3 major hurricanes in the period of record have made landfall in Mexico at or east of Acapulco. All 3 have occurred in the last two years, including Otis that exploded from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours before slamming into Acapulco in October 2023. This rapid intensification is attributed in part to the small size of the storm and the warmer than normal waters it encountered along the way.
