Storms in a Super El Nino Event

 

We are experiencing our first gale in the new season, which is strange indeed. There have been no Atlantic Hurricanes yet, just a couple of tropical storms. But the Pacific has had its share of hurricanes. One, Hurricane Polo, went from Tropical Storm to Cat 5 Hurricane in less than 24 hours. It has now made landfall in Baja California and is expected to wreak havoc throughout the US a week after a nor'easter flooded most of the East Coast. 

Hurricane Polo is one of the most incredible tropical cyclones in modern history:  

- Went from a tropical storm to Category 5 in ~21 hours

- Reached Category 5 intensity three separate times  

- Second-most intense eastern Pacific hurricane on record (892 mb)  

- Forecast to make the first documented major-hurricane landfall on the west coast of Baja California   

- Spent more than 60 hours at Category 5 intensity, an all-time record for the Northeast Pacific

- Remnant moisture will bring widespread heavy rain and flooding to the Southwest and central United States  

- Fastest storm on record in the eastern Pacific to intensify from a tropical depression to a Category 5 hurricane

How, pray tell, is cruising going to survive as a lifestyle in these unpredicatable conditions. The super El Nino is to blame, they say, but what if it doesn't go away?