Hurricane Seymour

Hurricane Seymour was the deadliest hurricane to strike Mexico since Hurricane Pauline in 1997, as well as one of the deadliest and most destructive Pacific hurricanes on record. The eighteenth named storm, twelfth hurricane, and seventh major hurricane of the extremely active 2022 Pacific hurricane season, Seymour developed from a broad area of low pressure that formed off the coast of Nicaragua on October 4. The system gradually became better organized as it moved westward. On October 7, the system had become sufficiently organized to be declared a tropical depression while located well south of the Mexican coast. On the following day, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Seymour.