Source: New York Post
Originally Published by: Why Atlantic hurricane season is off to slow start The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale explained What to do when Hurricane or Tropical Storm Warnings are issued for your town Tropical Storm Erick is strengthening in the Eastern Pacific Ocean some 265 miles southeast of Puerto Angel, Mexico, and is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The NHC has recorded maximum sustained winds of 50 mph within Erick, which formed early Tuesday morning. Erick is the fifth named storm of this year’s Eastern Pacific hurricane season, and it could be the first named storm in either the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific basins to make landfall.
