The storm that hit Mexico after it's earthquake is reforming into a new storm in the Pacific Basin after forming off the Gulf of Mexico. With a lot of the news focused on the hurricanes that have hit the United States less attention has been put on an interesting piece of weather news.
With Hurricane Franklin this year turning into Tropical Storm Jova this is likely going to become the second named storm this year that has successfully reformed across the ocean.
Hurricane Katia made landfall in Mexico and then it was downgraded to a remnant low. The remnants of it crossed the Pacific Ocean were it strengthened into Tropical Depression Fifteen-E.
An Atlantic–Pacific crossover hurricane is a tropical cyclone that develops in the Atlantic Ocean and moves into the Pacific Ocean, or vice versa. Since reliable records began in 1851, a total of seventeen tropical cyclones have done this.
In this case the remnants of a North Atlantic hurricane redeveloped into a different storm in the Pacific and is not considered part of the same system, that said as it reforms it will be an interesting piece of weather trivia of a storm that sits calmly over the ocean.
