EIGHT
Plain Language Summary
Tropical Depression EIGHT in the Eastern Pacific — 35 mph winds, forecast to weaken, no immediate threat to land
Why forecasters expect this
Why the track bends west then southwest: A dip in the jet-stream pattern (a “trough,” meaning a southward sag of lower pressure aloft) near the U.S. West Coast is pulling away. As that happens, slightly higher pressure rebuilds to the north of the storm, while lower pressure sits to the southwest. The storm is expected to be guided between these features and gradually feel a pull toward the southwest, leading to a turn from west-northwest to west and then southwest.…
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