Karina, Lowell and Marie

The atmosphere over the tropical Eastern North Pacific Ocean remains active with two hurricanes and a tropical storm.  Karina re-intensified into a hurricane about 1400 miles east of Hawaii.  It is moving slowly to the northeast as it is drawn into the large circulation around tropical storm Lowell.  Although the atmospheric conditions are allowing it to maintain hurricane force winds at the moment, it will encounter less favorable conditions as it moves farther north.

Tropical Storm Lowell is slowly spinning down about 1000 miles west of Baja California.  Lowell is moving slowly northwestward over cooler Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs).  The SSTs are cool enough that Lowell is only generating lower clouds and it has not produced any deep thunderstorms in recent hours.  Lowell could be reclassified as a non-tropical low later today or tomorrow.  Lowell has a large circulation and it will take it a few days to spin down completely.

Hurricane Marie is intensifying rapidly about 330 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.  It currently has a maximum sustained wind speed of 85 m.p.h. and it could become a major hurricane during the next day or two.  Marie has a large well organized circulation and upper level divergence is well established over it.  It is expected to move northwestward parallel to the west coast of Mexico.  Marie is the 13th named tropical cyclone and 8th hurricane of the Eastern North Pacific 2014 season.