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Hurricane Sandra Becomes Strongest Eastern Pacific Hurricane So Late in the Season
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Sandra is the strongest hurricane so late in the season. Only three other eastern Pacific storms have formed later in the calendar than Sandra in records dating to 1949. Hurricane Sandra became the second latest forming hurricane on record, behind Hurricane Winnie in 1983. Furthermore, there is no record of an intact depression or named storm making a landfall on either Baja California or Mexico's Pacific coast so late in the season.
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