Hurricane Lorena Recap Rob Shackelford September 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM 1 Hurricane Lorena joined the club of hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific, becoming the eighth storm to reach hurricane strength in the Eastern Pacific this year.
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Rob Shackelford September 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Hurricane Lorena joined the club of hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific, becoming the eighth storm to reach hurricane strength in the Eastern Pacific this year.
Lorena's Genesis
A lot of storms in the Eastern Pacific form in the same general area: south of Mexico in the warmest waters in the region. These storms generally travel one of two directions: west across the Pacific or north to bring impacts to Mexico.
Lorena was one of the latter.
After the hurricane center began to monitor an area of interest at the end of August, the storm got its act together enough to become a tropical depression the morning of September 1 and then became Tropical Storm Lorena by the next morning on Tuesday .
Lorena became a hurricane Wednesday morning and reached its peak wind speed of 85 mph before weakening back into a tropical storm Thursday morning.
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Impacts Without Landfall
Lorena never actually made landfall across Mexico, but that doesn't stop the impacts.
Even at its inception, outer bands of the storm were clipping western Mexico, bringing heavy rainfall and gusty winds to the region.
These impacts continued as Lorena moved northwest along the western Mexico coastline, with some of the most significant impacts occurring across the Baja Peninsula.
Outer rainbands soaked areas around Los Cabos in the southern Baja Peninsula with the National Hurricane Center warning that storm totals could reach 15 inches, even as the core of the storm remained well offshore. This rainfall caused mud- and landslides, causing damage across the region.
Teasing the US
Early forecasts showed Lorena steering into northwestern Mexico and potentially enhancing the monsoon rains of the Southwest, a region in desperate need of rainfall. The storm ultimately was only able to contribute a moderate amount of moisture and rainfall to the region.
Robert Shackelford is a meteorologist and climate scientist at weather.com. He received his undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Georgia studying meteorology and experimenting with alternative hurricane forecasting tools.
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