The Taco Traveler

Well... she's safely tucked into the Sea of Cortez (see the yellow "C" up there?), but if you follow the storms at all, you've seen that in five days there have been three named storms blowing around down there, with another one spinning up around the Gulf of Tehuantapec right now. Boris and Douglas are named, but not hurricanes yet (they're at the "Tropical Storm" level). Cristina petered out a few days ago on her way to Hawaii. The one spinning up now will be called Elida if it gets going enough to earn a name. Click this link to check out the storm naming protocol.

If you're interested, you can find this graphic and many more at the National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml. Of course the opening screen is always of the Western Atlantic because that's where hurricanes hit the US. There's one potentially forming off Africa now, but nothing huge yet. Click "Eastern Pacific" to see all the activity off Mexico. Pretty interesting stuff.

TT