** Reply to note from Richard Rowlett -

> "Nora" (Category 1) cut across central Baja from the Pacific side and scored
> a direct hit on San Felipe and delta area on 9/24-25 (2300-0800hrs). At the
> storms height, driving east winds were sustained at 60-80 knots for about
> three hours (0500-0800hrs) and 13.2 inches (~335mm) of rain fell. At
> 0800hrs, the whole thing abruptly stopped dead, the sun came out and the
> storm was over. We thought it was the eye, but in fact the storm was indeed
> over not realizing that this storm had a clockwise rotation.
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Nora did not have a clockwise rotation. Like all good n. hemisphere cyclones
she spun counterclockwise. What happened was that the eye passed directly over
San Felipe but the storm broke up in the process and there was nothing left by
the time the "back side" of the storm passed over the area.

Thanks, Richard for posting these summaries. Very enlightening.

- Jack



Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca