Tropical Cyclone Activity Report - Pacific / Indian Oceans

Tropical Cyclone Activity Report – Pacific / Indian Oceans

By: PDC
May 21, 2012

Tropical cyclone 2E is active in the eastern Pacific…located approximately 535 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. (Strengthening tropical depression with 35 mph sustained winds)

PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation, with error cones, storm direction, and wind speeds for tropical depression 2E

The second tropical cyclone of the 2012 hurricane season in the eastern Pacific has begun, and was a tropical depression called 2E…at the time of this writing. It is expected to rather quickly strengthen into a tropical storm named Bud, and then becoming a hurricane within 48 hours.

This soon to be tropical storm will move northwest in direction for the time being, before turning north and then northeast towards mainland Mexican coast. It is forecast to impact the coast late Friday night or early Saturday morning, with sustained winds forecast to be near 85 mph.

Tropical cyclone 3W is active in the western Pacific…located approximately 115 miles south of Andersen AFB, Guam. (Strengthening tropical depression with 25 knot sustained winds)

PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation accumulation with error cones, storm direction, and wind strength for tropical cyclone 3W

Tropical depression 3W is active just south of Guam at the time of this writing, with sustained winds of 25 knots. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) forecast has this strengthening system attaining tropical storm status within 24 hours…as it moves by just to the west of Guam and Saipan.

The extended forecast calls for 3W to move northward towards Iwo To and Chichi Jima, although veering towards the northeast before impacting those two Japanese islands. The current thinking suggests that this system won’t attain typhoon strength, remaining away from land areas.

Eastern North Pacific

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL

FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC…EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE:

Tropical Cyclone 2E

NHC forecast advisory
NHC graphical track map
NOAA Satellite image
Pacific Disaster Center’s Global Hazards Atlas

NHC graphical Tropical Weather Outlook Map

Central North Pacific

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
FOR THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC…BETWEEN 140W AND 180:

The central north Pacific hurricane season officially ended on November 30. The NWSFO in Honolulu will resume issuing outlooks starting again on June 1 of 2012.

CPHC Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook

Latest Central Pacific Satellite Image