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The Eastern Pacific is Sizzling; Nothing Cooking in the Atlantic
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VIIRS visible satellite image of ex-Hurricane Blas, Hurricane Celia, and Invest 97E taken on Sunday afternoon, July 10, 2016. Image: NASA.
The Eastern Pacific, which got off to its second slowest start on record on July 2 when Tropical Storm Agatha formed, is in the midst of an extraordinary period of July activity, thanks to favorable genesis conditions created by the presence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO.) Hurricane Blas, which reached Category 4 strength last week, but has since become post-tropical, has now been replaced by Hurricane Celia, which formed on Friday morning
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