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A Hurricane is born?

This week, a tropical depression in the Pacific off Acapulco is growing into a potential storm. Stay updated with our weather watcher!

Written byChris Mooney
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Hello, everyone. My name is Norman Doering. I'm your weather watcher for the week while Chris Mooney is away. You haven't heard from me until now because there haven't been any new hurricanes this week. However, earlier today I was checking in on the weather sites that I promised to Chris Mooney that I would watch, there were no hurricanes anywhere on the planet -- but there was a tropical depression in the Pacific, off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. It looked like this:

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I checked back just recently, and it's now looking like a real storm:

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I will check back later today to see what has developed and update this post.

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