Check out previous posts on Odile and Edouard over the weekend at Tropics.
Odile made landfall near Cabo San Lucas, MX as major category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds at 125mph at about 925pm PDT. An automated station on Cabo San Lucas reported a sustained wind at 89mph and a 116mph gust, near the time of landfall. Odile has significantly weakened today, while moving inland over Baja California. Maximum sustained winds are now 80mph, as of the 5pm advisory from the National Hurricane Center today. Odile is the strongest hurricane to make a direct hit on the Cabo San Lucas area, and from images today, appears it had devastated parts of the area. Some major damage has been reported. Just give you an idea of magnitude of this storm, below are some rainbow animated loops of Odile just before and after making landfall and some pictures of devastation from people in the area.


Odile is likely weaken to remnant low, over next couple days. A trough moving California may carry Odile’s remnants into Southwest US, later this week. Meanwhile Hurricane Edouard, is still going well out in the Atlantic (as shown below) it is almost category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds at 110mph, as of the 5pm advisory from the National Hurricane Center. Satellite image shows an a large eye has cleared out and is surrounded by ring of deep convection. This is a good sign of hurricane intensifying and Edouard will likely become a category 3 later tonight. Edouard still expected recurve into North Atlantic. However a wave model shows some 3 to 4 feet swells impacting the East Coast on Wednesday.

