El nino does not produce many hurricanes, but when it does watch out.

[PB666]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPEP5+shtml/231448.shtml?

These are some of the stats on Patricia, an Eastern Pacific Hurricane.

1. Sustained winds of 200 MPH (325 KM/H) ~ 90 m/s ~ 0.27M

2. Internal pressure = 880MB

These types of storms never bode well N. Mexico (or S. Texas either).

When it rains it rains, but when it really rains, its El Nino.

[PB666]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/patricia-eastern-pacific-2015

[Exoscientist]

Anyone know if we got extreme hurricanes in the last big el Nino year of 1997?

Bob Clark

[Armchair Rocket Scientist]

Anyone know if we got extreme hurricanes in the last big el Nino year of 1997?

Bob Clark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Pacific_hurricane_season

The 1997 Pacific hurricane season was a very active hurricane season. With hundreds of deaths and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, this season was the costliest and one of the deadliest Pacific hurricane seasons. This was due to a strong El Niño. The 1997 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1997 in the eastern Pacific, and on June 1, 1997 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1997. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when almost all tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Atlantic_hurricane_season

The 1997 Atlantic hurricane season is the most recent season to feature no tropical cyclones in August – typically one of the most active months. The season officially began on June 1,[1] and lasted until November 30.[2] These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The 1997 season was inactive, with only seven named storms forming, with an additional tropical depression and an unnumbered subtropical storm. It was the first time since the 1961 season that there were no active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin during the entire month of August. A strong El Niño is credited with reducing the number of storms in the Atlantic, while increasing the number of storms in the Eastern and Western Pacific basin to 19 and 29 storms, respectively. As is common in El Niño years, tropical cyclogenesis was suppressed in the tropical latitudes, with only two becoming tropical storms south of 25°N.