Tropical Storm Fausto Forms in the Eastern Pacific

16 Aug 2020, 1:48 pm

Tropical Depression 11 in the Eastern Pacific has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Fausto via the National Hurricane Center. Its maximum sustained winds are at 40 mph with a minimum central pressure of 1004 mb, and is moving northwest and 15 mph. The center of the storm is located about 640 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.

The storm is forecast to move farther west into greater Pacific Ocean waters where it’s forecast to weaken back to a Tropical Depression by Tuesday morning.

Fuasto should find little impact on people, but be sure to check in here with WeatherNation for all of the latest on the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Central Pacific tropical basins.

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Devon is a native of Macomb in Western, Illinois but has made his travels across the country from Las Vegas to Washington, D.C. with stops in Tulsa, Little Rock, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City. His passion for weather developed at an early age and can be traced back to when he was 5 years old and dressed up as a walking tornado for Halloween. His college education came through the Universit... Load Morey of Oklahoma where he completed his B.S. in meteorology with a minor in math. Devon has been through weather extremes from 110°+ heat in Las Vegas, to 3 feet of snow in Washington, D.C. where in his first winter experienced the all-time record snowfall for the season (winter of 2009/2010)! He’s also chased tornadoes in Oklahoma and saw his very first off of I-70 on the front range of Colorado.

Tropical Storm Fausto Forms in the Eastern Pacific

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