Here is the latest information on Sandra as of 10 p.m. EST Tuesday:
- Location: About 540 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.
- Movement: Toward the west-northwest now, but expected to slow down and turn north by Thursday, then accelerating toward the northeast. Sandra may brush the southern Baja California peninsula near Cabo San Lucas early Saturday, then should move into Sinaloa, Durango or Chihuahua states later this weekend in a weakened state.
- Intensity: Now strengthening quickly, Sandra has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. It's forecast to become a major hurricane on Thursday, which would make it the latest major hurricane on record in the eastern Pacific. It then will weaken quickly after getting caught up in the subtropical jet stream. Sandra may weaken to a tropical storm or depression before brushing Cabo San Lucas, and could be a depression or even remnant low before ever making a landfall in mainland Mexico this weekend.
- Impacts: Despite a later weakening trend, locally heavy rain and flash flooding are possible in the southern Baja California peninsula as soon as Friday and in the above-mentioned Mexican states where Sandra limps ashore Saturday. Some moisture from Sandra may also pump into a heavy rain and ice event (Winter Storm Cara) in the southern Plains of the U.S.
- Rarity: Only three other eastern Pacific storms have formed later in the calendar than Sandra in records dating to 1949. Hurricane Sandra became the second latest forming hurricane on record, behind Hurricane Winnie in 1983. Furthermore, there is no record of an intact depression or named storm making a landfall on either Baja California or Mexico's Pacific coast so late in the season.
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