Hurricane Rachel is swirling about 450 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. It is moving towards the north-northwest at about 10 mph.
Wind shear, or changing wind direction and/or speed with height, diminished slightly, allowing Rachel to strengthen to hurricane status.
Over the next couple of days, however, the system will track over cooler waters as well as move into a region of more stable air and stronger wind shear; this will induce a weakening trend.
Rachel is now drifting toward the north to northwest. Over the next few days Rachel's movement will remain slow and should eventually turn back toward the southwest. At times Rachel may meander erratically.
In any case, Rachel will stay well to the west of the Baja California peninsula, and therefore poses no threat to land.
This is now the third busiest eastern Pacific hurricane season on record, as measured by the number of season-to-date named storms, according to The Weather Channel hurricane specialist Michael Lowry. Only 1992 (19 storms) and 1985 (20 storms) were busier, says Lowry.
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