Powerful Hurricane Odile is bearing down on Cabo San Lucas and southern parts of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula as it continues to churn northwest in the eastern Pacific. Odile has the potential to bring devastating wind damage and storm surge to Cabo San Lucas Sunday night.
Odile is now a major hurricane in the eastern Pacific, as it has benefited from low wind shear and warm water. Odile strengthened quickly in that environment Saturday and Saturday night, going from a tropical storm Friday night to a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale by Sunday morning.
As of 2 p.m. PDT Sunday, Odile is now a Category 3 cyclone. Hurricane Hunters from the U.S. Air Force flew into the storm Sunday afternoon, finding maximum winds slightly lower than satellite-based estimates. However, they also found a much lower central pressure than previously thought; the 11 a.m. estimate was 941 millibars, but the Hurricane Hunters found that the pressure in Odile’s eye was actually 922 millibars.
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