Tropical Depression Fourteen-E Forms in Eastern Pacific, Could Become Tropical Storm This Week
If you're sailing the Eastern Pacific off Mexico's Baja coast this week, keep an eye on Tropical Depression Fourteen-E, currently about 605 miles southwest of Baja California's southern tip. The NHC has issued no coastal watches or warnings and lists no land hazards as of this advisory. Check the NHC's next update, due at 8 p.m. PDT, since the system could strengthen into a tropical storm by tonight or Thursday.
What we have here is a depression, not a storm — winds of 35 mph, a pressure reading of 1006 mb, and zero watches or warnings posted. The NHC's own language is cautious: "gradual strengthening" and a possible upgrade to tropical storm status "tonight or Thursday." That's a forecast, not a fact on the ground. My read is this is a routine early-season advisory worth bookmarking, not acting on — there's no named storm, no land hazard, and no indicated threat to Baja California or ports beyond it in the bulletin itself. If I had a cruise booked in that corridor this week, I'd simply check the 8 p.m. PDT advisory rather than rebook anything. The system is 605 miles offshore moving west-northwest at 9 mph; that's slow and distant enough to just watch for now.