Tropical Update: Hurricane Agatha expected to make landfall in Mexico
Published Date: 5/30/2022
Source: WWLTV
The Atlantic hurricane season doesn't begin officially start until June 1st and there's already an area highlighted in the SW Gulf and Yucatan Peninsula for a low chance of tropical development. The chance right now is low, but it may go up in the upcoming days. The reason for this is because Hurricane Agatha has formed in the Eastern Pacific and it's a high-end category 2 hurricane. Remember, the Eastern Pacific has a different list of names than what we use on the Atlantic side. Agatha is forecast to become a major hurricane tonight/early Monday morning then make landfall Monday night then move into southern Mexico early next week. Some of the energy from Agatha could move into the SW Gulf. If this happens it would be later this week. Right now, it looks like anything that does try to reorganize would move northeast toward the Florida area. On Tuesday, May 24, NOAA released their outlook for the 2022 season. They predicted it will be the seventh above-average Atlantic season in a row with 14-21 named storms of which six to ten would become hurricanes. They predicted three to six of those hurricanes would become major, meaning Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale.