(ETH) – Tropical Storm Andres has just formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean becoming the earliest named storm on record to develop in that basin according to a report from the Weather Channel.
The report details that Andres is now centered hundreds of miles west of Mexico’s Pacific coast and at this time poses no threat to any land areas and experts are saying that the storm should quickly succumb to unfavorable upper-level winds and drier air in the next couple of days as it tracks northwestward.
The Weather Channel stated: “Andres’ formation at 9 a.m. MDT on Sunday marked the earliest in the satellite era, or since the mid-1960s, that a named storm has developed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The previous record was set by Tropical Storm Adrian, which formed less than a day later in the calendar in May 2017”.
Typically the eastern Pacific season begins on May 15th, which is now a half-month earlier than the normal Atlantic season. Experts say that the earlier beginning is credited to warmer waters and typically weaker wind shear earlier in the season as compared to the Atlantic.