Meteorologists on the Watch as East Pacific Experiences More Topical Activity

The East Pacific Ocean is now crowded because of an increase in tropical activity that started late last week. This week, several tropical entities will keep fighting among themselves to know who will come out on top.

Tropical Storm Hilda

Out of the presently spinning entities in the East Pacific, Tropical Storm Hilda is the initial, and most organized. Last Friday, this tropical storm first earned its name when it took the position of the eighth tropical storm to develop in the basin this season. The storm gained strength immediately and attained hurricane status the next day.

Hilda was regarded as a hurricane until very early on Tuesday morning, local time, when a great portion of its wind intensity was lost, stripping Hilda off its hurricane status, and returning it back to a tropical storm designation.

Hilda was a tropical storm situated over 1,000 miles west of the southern tip of Baja California as of Wednesday morning.

Hilda will persist on a generally northwestward track into midweek. This track will keep forcing Hilda into more and more difficult conditions for tropical development.

Tropical Rainstorm Ignacio

Rob Miller, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist explained: "A gradual loss of wind intensity is expected to continue as Hilda encounters drier air, stronger wind shear and cooler ocean waters."

Tropical Rainstorm Ignacio is entity 2 in the basin. On Monday morning, local time, Ignacio attained tropical storm status but was a tropical storm that relatively lived for a short while. Ignacio lost its wind intensity late Tuesday evening, turning it into a tropical rainstorm.

AccuWeather forecasters are monitoring other tropical entities in the East Pacific, not just Hilda and what was previously Ignacio.

Tropical Rainstorm 9-E is situated a few hundred miles to the west of Hilda. Nine-E has been almost motionless while moving vigorously since Sunday over the open waters of the East Pacific, but is starting to reveal signs of better organization.

Miller explained: "There remains a brief window over the next day or two when it could once again become a tropical depression or even a tropical storm."

Fujiwhara Effect

AccuWeather forecasters say it stays attainable that Hilda and 9-E can propel close enough to each other this week to display a phenomenon referred to as the Fujiwhara effect, but the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.

The Fujiwhara effect takes place when two tropical systems rotating in one direction pass close enough to one another that they start dancing around a common center, as per the National Weather Service. Most of the time, the two systems can come close to each other and merge.

Not even one of the three tropical entities presently churning in the East Pacific will cause any direct impacts to land. But, shipping interests in the region of the storms may notice that seas are higher than normal over the coming days.

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