Hurricane Simon

Hurricane Simon was a high-end Category 5 storm that made landfall near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico causing extreme devastation in Sinaloa and became the costliest and deadliest hurricane ever recorded in the East Pacific basin surpassing Hurricane Manuel of 2013.

Hurricane Simon was the 18th named storm, 12th hurricane and 6th major hurricane of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season.

Hurricane Simon's origins can be traced back to the remnants of an unclassified tropical depression which which degenerated into a post-tropical cyclone 1½ days earlier on October 19 just off the coast of Mexico near Acapulco, slowly tracking west north-westward, the post tropical cyclone gradually gained strength and was eventually classified by the NHC as Tropical Depression 18 later that day. Moving over favourable conditions, Tropical Depression 18 strengthened into a weak tropical storm on October 20 and was assigned the name Simon, The Servicio Meteorológico Nacional in Mexico issued tropical storm warnings for the coastal areas of Guerrero, Michoacan and Jalisco. In the early morning hours of October 21, Tropical Storm Simon was upgraded to a Category 1 Hurricane and Simon was starting to show signs of rapid intensification and was later upgraded to a Category 2 Hurricane just 6 hours later and then became a Category 3 Hurricane on October 22. Simon kept a steady pace of intensification as it curved slowly north and then curved northeast heading towards south central Sinaloa and intensified to a High-End Category 4

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