2005 Pacific Hurricane Season - 2005 Pacific Hurricane Season, Timeline of the 2005 Pacific Hurricane Season (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 2005 Pacific Hurricane Season, Timeline of the 2005 Pacific Hurricane Season, List of Storms in the 2005 Pacific Hurricane Season, Hurricane Kenneth, Hurricane Adrian, Tropical Storm Lidia, Tropical Storm Norma, Tropical Storm Beatriz, Tropical Depression One-C. Excerpt: Season summary map The 2005 Pacific hurricane season officially began on May 15, 2005 in the eastern Pacific and on June 1, 2005 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 2005. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The season got off to a quick start, with the tropical depression that would become Hurricane Adrian forming just two days into the season on May 17. It took a very rare track skirting El Salvador as a Category 1 hurricane then striking Honduras as a tropical depression . Between June and September, Dora was the only storm that posed a significant threat to land as it skirted the Mexican coast, and Kenneth came close to Hawaii as a dissipating tropical depression. Hurricane Otis appeared to be heading for an encounter with the Baja California peninsula, but turned north-northwest, paralleling the coast, before dissipating. This unusual mosiac of storms shows, from left to right, Hurricane Jova, Hurricane Kenneth, and Tropical Storm Max. Also shown on the far right is an intensifying tropical disturbance which later developed into Tropical Storm Norma. Pre-season forecasts Source: Date: Named storms: Hurricanes: Major hurricanes The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a slow year, with only a 10 % chance of above-average storm activity in the eastern North Pacific and a 70 % chance of below-normal activity. The pre-season forecast predicted 11 to 15 tropical storms, 6 t...