Today, Nov. 30, marks the official end of the 2015 Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons. No active storms were being monitored in either basin Monday morning.
Today, Nov. 30, marks the official end of the 2015 Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons. No active storms were being monitored in either basin Monday morning.
In the Central Pacific, which is where Hawaii is located, tropical cyclone formation is not expected through Wednesday morning, forecasters with the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu reported.
In the Eastern Pacific, no tropical cyclone formation is expected during the coming five days, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
The last named storm to impact the Central Pacific basin was Olaf, which peaked as a Category 4 hurricane packing 150 mph winds as it entered the Central Pacific on Oct. 20 before tracking north-northeast and dissipating. Preceding Olaf were 14 other named storms during a record-breaking season in the Central Pacific basin.
Forecasters had called for an above-normal season with five to eight tropical cyclones expected to pass through the basin. The most active season prior to 2015 occurred in 1992 with 11 storms; the same year Hurricane Iniki slammed Kauai.
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