... hurricanes in below weatherfax/sat-pic!
In that pic, in the Atlantic, major hurricane IDA is about to hit Louisiana. We have small category 1 hurricane NORA in the Eastern Pacific creeping up the Sea of Cortez. For a week we have been tracking NORA since she was first mentioned as a possible development.
Early forecasts had NORA visit us, and she isn't welcome... With every new forecast the track has shifted a bit to the east, away from us, and now NORA is forecast to travel along the mainland (eastern) shore of the SoC. Forecast is still iffy, too much possible interaction with land. Any with any turn to the north, and NORA will peter out in a day over the mainland Mexico, and that is fine with us! It probably will be a large flooding event on the mainland side, with mountains blocking the path inland and NORA's rain will run down those hills.
Boats from Bahia de Los Angeles plus boats from further south have moved, and are moving, into a so called hurricane hole nearby: Puerto Don Juan, the name has nothing to do with a port, but a small lagoon with a narrow entrance. We didn't find it attractive to be with >=20 other boats doing the drag-dance in a small enclosed space. We opted to go back to where we just have spent a whole week before doing a little re-provisioning in BdLA: Puerto Refugio, again, not a port, but a bunch of bays with some islands in front of it (check the position reports).
From here we have several options (i.e go back to Puerto Don Juan, or head for Bahia Willard 50nm NW from here) if we feel our place is not good. We scoped out several possibilities to move and anchor here, awaiting the outskirts of NORA in a couple days. Plus, this far north, the hurricanes typically have lost strength, and riding out a tropical strom, hove to with plenty room to the next shore, is not ruled out.
In the picture, the red circle is our position and the dotted line is the forecast track of NORA (Sun 1500 UTC).
PS: by the time this gets out, NORA has been downgraded to a tropical storm.
