1975 Pacific hurricane season

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The season began with the formation of Tropical Depression One on June 2 and ended with the extratropical transition of Tropical Storm Priscilla on November 7. No named systems formed in May, two in June, four in July, six in August, three in September, one in October, and one in November.{{cite web|work=National Hurricane Center|title=Eastern Pacific hurricane best track analysis 1949-2010|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|date=March 2011|access-date=2010-03-22|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/tracks1949to2010_epa.html|archive-date=2011-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008023356/http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/tracks1949to2010_epa.html|url-status=live}} The total length of the season, from the formation of the first depression to the dissipation of the last, was 158 days.

In the eastern Pacific (east of 140°W), sixteen tropical storms and eight hurricanes formed. Four of the hurricanes became major hurricanes by reaching Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. These numbers are close to the long-term averages of fifteen tropical storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes.{{cite web|url=http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Epac_hurr/background_information.html |title=Background Information: East Pacific Hurricane Season |access-date=2008-10-30 |publisher=Climate Prediction Center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509063106/http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Epac_hurr/background_information.html |archive-date=2009-05-09 |url-status=live }} There were also four unnamed tropical depressions. The only system to enter or form in the central Pacific (between 140°W and the international dateline) was an unusual high-latitude hurricane (north of 30°N), which went unnamed. This was the first occurrence on record of a mid-Pacific upper tropospheric low developing into a tropical cyclone, and the first hurricane on record within the central Pacific north of Hawaii.{{cite web|url=http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/summaries/1975.php|publisher=Central Pacific Hurricane Center|title=The 1975 Central Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season|date=|access-date=March 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915135859/http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/summaries/1975.php|archive-date=September 15, 2018|url-status=dead}}

The only systems to make landfall this year were Tropical Storm Eleanor and Hurricane Olivia. Besides these two systems, Hurricane Agatha caused the sinking of a ship carrying millions of dollars worth of cargo.{{cite news|publisher=Independent Press-Telegram|date=1975-06-08|title=Stricken ship in tow sinks|page=1|type =PDF}}{{cite news|title=Disabled Freighter Sinks|date=1975-06-08|page=3|publisher=Logansport Pharos-Tribune and Press|type =PDF}} Tropical Storm Eleanor caused no serious impact.{{cite journal|author=Robert A. Baum|type =PDF|journal=Monthly Weather Review|publisher=American Meteorological Society |title=Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones of 1975|page=475|bibcode=1976MWRv..104..475B|volume=104|doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1976)104<0475:ENPTCO>2.0.CO;2|issue=4 |date=April 1976|doi-access=free}}

The most devastating storm of the season was Hurricane Olivia. A late-season major hurricane, Olivia came ashore near Mazatlán. The storm killed 30 people, left around 30,000 people homeless,{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/weather/wmexhurr.htm|newspaper=USA Today|date=1999-06-10|title=Western Mexico hurricanes|access-date=2008-10-30|archive-date=2008-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118063656/http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wmexhurr.htm|url-status=live}} and caused 20 million dollars (1975 USD) in damage.

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An area of disturbed weather about {{convert|290|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} southwest of Acapulco formed on June 1. It organized into a tropical depression the next day. After heading southwestward, it turned to the northwest and strengthened into Tropical Storm Agatha on June 2. Agatha maintained its course and steadily intensified. It reached hurricane intensity on June 3 while located about {{convert|170|mi|km|abbr=on}} southwest of Zihuatanejo. Hurricane Agatha started weakening thereafter, becoming a tropical storm on June 4 and a depression on June 5. It dissipated shortly afterwards. At this time, Agatha was located about {{convert|140|mi|km|abbr=on}} south of the Tres Marias Islands.

Even though Agatha passed close to Mexico as it weakened, no impact is known to have been caused. Waves caused by Agatha did impact a ship called the Polynesian Diakan. A Greek freighter en route from Pago Pago to Terminal Island, California, the Polynesian Diakan began flooding on June 3, forcing the 32-man crew to abandon the vessel. The exact cause of the initial flooding was unknown, but was speculated to be primarily due to cargo shifting and not the weather.{{cite news|title=L.B. tug races to get to freighter|date=1975-06-06|publisher=Long Beach Independent|page=3|author=Mike Kruglak}} The crew was rescued by the United States Coast Guard. Three members required hospitalization. After being reached on June 6 by a tugboat in a salvage attempt, the vessel capsized and sank near San Clemente Island on June 7, taking its multimillion-dollar cargo of 71 containers of canned tuna with it. The reason for the sinking was unknown.

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On June 27, a tropical depression formed about {{convert|575|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} south of the tip of the Baja California Peninsula at a location atypical for tropical cyclogenesis. The depression moved generally westward, and intensified into Tropical Storm Bridget on June 28. It started accelerating as it turned towards the northwest, then west, and eventually to the southwest. Bridget weakened into a tropical depression on July 2 and dissipated the next day. It remnant circulation hung about in the area for a few more days. Bridget never came near land and thus, no deaths or damage were recorded.

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A disturbance {{convert|480|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} south of Acapulco organized into a tropical depression on July 2. It headed generally west-northwest and steadily intensified, becoming a tropical storm later on July 2. It became a hurricane on July 3 and ultimately peaked as a Category 3 hurricane. Hurricane Carlotta was first major hurricane, Category 3 or higher, of the season. It began weakening thereafter, and was a tropical storm by July 8. Carlotta became a depression on July 10 and dissipated the next day. The hurricane did not come near land and caused no significant impact.

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An unstable area developed a circulation and became a tropical depression on July 4. It headed west- northwest and became a tropical storm on July 7. The next day, it was a hurricane and turned to the west. Continuing to strengthen, it reached Category 4 intensity on July 9. This windspeed was the highest of the season. The hurricane turned to the southwest and gradually weakened. By July 11 it was nearly stationary. It then headed northwestward again and continued weakening, becoming a tropical storm on July 13. It weakened into a depression on July 14 and dissipated immediately thereafter. Denise brought winds of near-gale force to parts of Mexico, but otherwise caused no damage or casualties.

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An area of disturbed weather developed into a tropical depression on July 10, {{convert|100|mi|km|abbr=on}} south of Acapulco. As its center of circulation became more pronounced and it was upgraded into Tropical Storm Eleanor. The tropical storm moved northwestward, and later curved northward. The system made landfall near Manzanillo on July 12. It quickly dissipated. Eleanor brought {{convert|20|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} winds the Manzanillo, but damage from the storm is minor due to the lack of heavy rains.

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A rapidly moving squally area of disturbed weather that was moving on a northwestward path was upgraded into Tropical Depression Seven on July 27. It intensified into a tropical storm later that day. Francene turned to the west and weakened into a tropical depression on July 28. It slowly weakened and ceased to exist as a tropical cyclone on July 30. Francene's remnants persisted as a tropical disturbance for another twelve hours, before completely dissipating. This tropical cyclone caused no known impact.

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An area of disturbed weather about {{convert|800|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas organized a tropical depression on August 11. It was upgraded to tropical storm intensity the next day. After heading generally westward and peaking as a weak to moderate tropical storm on August 12, Georgette slowly weakened. It weakened into a depression on August 14 and underwent extratropical transition thereafter. The cyclone dissipated twelve hours later. Tropical Storm Georgette had no impact on land.

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A tropical disturbance formed on August 11 and gradually organized. The next day, an atmospheric circulation developed. Based on this, this system was classified as Tropical Depression Nine on August 13. The depression quickly intensified into a tropical storm and was named Hilary. The system gradually accelerated to the northwest and reached its peak strength on August 15 with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h). Tropical Storm Hilary then started a gradual weakening trend. It became a depression on August 16, turned a little bit more westward, and dissipated on August 17. Hilary never came near land, and as such caused no death or damage.

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On August 18, a tropical depression formed south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec from a tropical wave that had entered the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean. It strengthened into a tropical storm later that day. The tropical storm moved westward, and became a hurricane on August 21. Ilsa became a Category 2 hurricane on August 22. It maintained that intensity for three days as it moved out to sea. On August 25, Ilsa turned westward and rapidly weakened. It fell to tropical storm intensity on August 26. Later that day, while still maintaining winds of gale-force, Ilsa ceased being a tropical cyclone. Ilsa's remnants continued out over the open Pacific Ocean. The remains of Ilsa eventually interacted with another weather system. That triggered the development of the unnamed hurricane of August 31–September 5

Hurricane Ilsa caused no casualties or damage. As the unnamed hurricane formed from Ilsa's remnants, Ilsa and the latter system are unofficially the same tropical cyclone. Indeed, this year's seasonal report from the Redwood City Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center, in the Monthly Weather Review includes a brief discussion of the unnamed hurricane in the report's section on Hurricane Ilsa. Neither the Central Pacific Hurricane Center{{cite web|url=http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/summaries/ |publisher=Central Pacific Hurricane Center |access-date=2008-10-28 |title=Previous Tropical Systems in the Central Pacific |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428034831/http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/summaries/ |archive-date=2009-04-28 |url-status=live }} nor the official HURDAT "best track" database of tropical cyclone location and intensity data explicitly considers them the same. Hence, as far as official records matter, Ilsa and the unnamed hurricane of August 31 – September 5 are different tropical cyclones.

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On August 24, a tropical depression formed from a tropical disturbance about {{convert|250|mi|km|abbr=on}} south of Acapulco. It intensified into Tropical Storm Jewel the next day. The tropical cyclone headed generally northwest and paralleled the coast of Mexico. On August 27, Jewel became a hurricane for mere six hours, the minimum possible time in HURDAT.{{cite web|title=Original HURDAT format|url=http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/hurdat.html|work=Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory|publisher=Hurricane Research Division|access-date=2008-10-28| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081101124544/http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd//data_sub/hurdat.html| archive-date= 1 November 2008 | url-status= live}} Jewel then turned to the west, and then back to the northwest. Jewel weakened to depression strength on August 31. Tropical Depression Jewel dissipated shortly after that, although its remnants remained distinct until September 3. There was no impact.

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On August 29, an area of weather developed directly into a tropical storm, skipping the tropical depression stage. Katrina steadily intensified as it headed west-northwest, gradually turning to the northwest. It peaked in intensity on September 3 as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of {{convert|130|mi/h|km/h|0|abbr=on}}, the second highest of the season. Katrina then headed westward and rapidly weakened. It was downgraded into a tropical storm on September 5 and a depression on September 6. The last advisory was issued on September 7 when Katrina dissipated. Although the hurricane brought Category 3-equivalent winds to Socorro Island on September 2, no damage was reported there or anywhere else.

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{{Infobox Hurricane Small

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The remnants of Hurricane Ilsa interacted with a mid-level trough to produce a new low-level circulation on August 31, about {{convert|930|mi|km}} northeast of Hawaii. The new system absorbed the remnants of Ilsa as it moved westward. Thunderstorms increased around the low, resembling a subtropical cyclone by September 1. Its track over warmer waters caused the storm to transition into a tropical storm on September 2, by which time the convection organized into rainbands. By that time, the storm was about {{convert|685|mi|km}} north of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The storm quickly developed a central dense overcast, and by 00:00 UTC on September 3 Dvorak classifications began on the cyclone. An approaching cold front turned the storm to the north and northeast. Around that time, the storm developed an eye in the center of the convection, suggesting that it intensified into a hurricane late on September 3, located about {{convert|1170|mi|km|round=5}} south of Alaska. It was a small system, measuring about {{convert|85|mi|km|sigfig=2}} in diameter.{{cite journal|author=Thomas Burtt|author2=Dennis Haller|year=1976|title=An Unusual Tropical Cyclone in the North Central Pacific|bibcode=1976MWRv..104..321B|volume=104|pages=321|journal=Monthly Weather Review|doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1976)104<0321:AUTCIT>2.0.CO;2|issue=3|doi-access=free}} A nearby ship reported sustained winds of 63 mph (102 km/h), while another nearby ship reported a pressure of {{convert|1003|mbar|inHg|abbr=on|lk=on|comma=off}}, with a 3-hour tendency increase of {{convert|13.5|mbar|inHg|abbr=on}}, suggesting a minimum pressure of under {{convert|990|mbar|inHg|abbr=on}}.{{cite journal|author=Donald Cochran|year=1976|title=Unusual Tropical Development from a Mid-Pacific Cold Low|publisher=American Meteorology Society|type =PDF|bibcode=1976MWRv..104..804C|volume=104|pages=804–808|journal=Monthly Weather Review|doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1976)104<0804:UTDFAM>2.0.CO;2|issue=6|doi-access=}} After maintaining hurricane status for about 18 hours, the storm weakened due to strong wind shear from the approaching cold front. Early on September 5, the cyclone became extratropical in the Gulf of Alaska, while located about {{convert|315|mi|km|sigfig=2}} southwest of Juneau, Alaska. On the same day, the circulation was rapidly absorbed by the frontal system, and the remnants quickly reached the coast of British Columbia. The remnants of the storm turned southeastward, and the low was last tracked definitively to a point north of Montana.

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Rain and wind reports from the Acapulco weather station suggested that a tropical depression was developing. This was confirmed on September 16 from ship reports. It intensified into a tropical storm and was named Lily. Tropical Storm Lily headed northwest in a nearly straight path. By 0000 UTC September 18, the system was a moderate tropical storm located about {{convert|160|mi|km|abbr=on}} south of Manzanillo Lily was upgraded to hurricane status on the same day and eventually reached its peak strength. After passing southwest of Socorro Island, Lily weakened, becoming a storm on September 20. Lily weakened into a depression on September 21, turned to the west-southwest, and dissipated. Its remnants remained visible until September 24, when they were no longer distinct via weather satellite. On September 19, the cyclone brought hurricane-force winds to Socorro Island. No damage or casualties were reported.

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In late September, three tropical disturbances moved westward across the eastern Pacific Ocean. One of them organized into a tropical depression on September 28. The next day the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Monica. The tropical storm initially headed west-northwestward and gradually curved towards the north. It reached its peak intensity of 50 mph (85 km/h) on September 29. Monica then gradually weakened. It became a tropical depression on October 1. The cyclone dissipated shortly thereafter. No impact was reported in association with Tropical Storm Monica.

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{{Infobox Hurricane Small

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On September 28, a system developed into a tropical depression, simultaneously with Tropical Storm Monica.. It headed generally westward and on September 29, 18 hours after Monica did it, strengthened into a tropical storm. Nanette continued out to sea and slowly strengthened. It peaked in windspeed of 50 mph (85 km/h) on October 3 and turned to the southwest. It then slowly weakened. On October 4, it weakened into a tropical depression and then degenerated into a disturbance that same day. No damage or deaths were reported.

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{{Infobox Hurricane Small

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{{Main|Hurricane Olivia (1975)}}

On October 22, Tropical Depression Eighteen formed from a cluster of three thunderstorms south of Mexico and then strengthened into a tropical storm. It moved northwestward initially, followed by a northeast turn. Olivia then intensified steadily. It reached Category 3 intensity and a peak of 115 mph (185 km/h) winds just before landfall. Early on October 25, Olivia moved ashore just south of Mazatlán causing major damage. Olivia destroyed 7,000 houses in the region, leaving 30,000 people homeless,{{cite news|author=Staff writer|title=30000 Homeless, 25 dead in Hurricane|date=1975-10-26|newspaper=Tri City Herald|agency=Associated Press|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9gMxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i-EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3161,6491680&dq=hurricane+olivia&hl=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124152712/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9gMxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i-EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3161,6491680&dq=hurricane+olivia&hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 24, 2013|access-date=2011-02-11}} and damage totaled $20 million (1975 USD, ${{Formatprice|{{Inflation|US|20000000|1975}}}} {{#time:Y}} USD). The hurricane killed 30 people,{{cite news|author=John Schmidt|newspaper=The Calgary Herald|date=1975-10-28|title=Farmers View Wreckage|access-date=2011-02-11|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=unJkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C34NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2292,3763627&dq=hurricane+olivia&hl=en|archive-date=2018-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915135853/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=unJkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C34NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2292,3763627&dq=hurricane+olivia&hl=en|url-status=live}} 20 of them were from drownings in shrimp boats.

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{{Infobox Hurricane Small

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|Track=Priscilla 1975 track.png

|Formed=November 2

|Dissipated=November 7

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}}

A nearly stationary cloudy area developed a circulation on November 2. The depression drifted north for a while before turning to the west-northwest on November 3. It intensified into a tropical storm on November 4. Priscilla then began turning to the north. However, the system failed to re-curve, instead, the tropical storm turned generally westward. The tropical storm peaked in windspeed as a 65 mph (100 km/h) high-end storm on November 5. It then turned to the northwest on a heading nearly directly at Clarion Island, but it dissipated on November 7 about {{convert|115|mi|km|abbr=on}} short of landfall.

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Besides the tropical storms and hurricanes this season, there were four additional tropical depressions within the eastern Pacific. None of them made landfall anywhere or crossed into the central Pacific. Tropical Cyclone Four formed on July 2 and dissipated the next day. Tropical Cyclone Thirteen formed on September 12 and lasted four days. Tropical Cyclone Seventeen formed October 16 and dissipated a day later. Tropical Cyclone Nineteen formed on November 1 and also dissipated the next day.

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The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Pacific Ocean east of 140°W in 1975.{{cite report|url=https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/Publications/NatHurricaneOpsPlans/HOPs-1975.pdf|pages=93, 95|publisher=NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research|location=Washington, D.C.|title=National Hurricane Operations Plan|date=May 1975|access-date=February 27, 2024|archive-date=February 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201112344/http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/Publications/NatHurricaneOpsPlans/HOPs-1975.pdf|url-status=live}} It was the same list used in the 1971 season.{{cite report|url=https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/Publications/NatHurricaneOpsPlans/HOPs-1971.pdf|page=97|publisher=NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research|location=Washington, D.C.|title=National Hurricane Operations Plan|date=May 1971|access-date=February 27, 2024|archive-date=February 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212161343/http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/Publications/NatHurricaneOpsPlans/HOPs-1971.pdf|url-status=live}} No names were retired following the season; however, an overhaul of the naming system in 1978 to include male names resulted in this list being discarded.{{cite web|title=Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names|publisher=National Hurricane Center|location=Miami, Florida|access-date=February 27, 2024|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml|archive-date=June 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627193026/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames_history.shtml|url-status=live}}

The season's unnamed hurricane was the only tropical cyclone reported in the North Pacific between 140°W and the International Date Line in 1975.{{cite report|author=Pao-Shin Chu|author2=Peng Wu|publisher=University of Hawaii-Manoa|year=2008|access-date=February 27, 2024|title=Climatic Atlas of Tropical Cyclone Tracks over the Central North Pacific|url=http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/czm/initiative/hazard/climatic_atlas_of_tropical_cyclone.pdf|archive-date=October 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023054832/http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/czm/initiative/hazard/climatic_atlas_of_tropical_cyclone.pdf|url-status=live}} Had the system been named, it would have been assigned one from the west Pacific's typhoon name list by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center on Guam.

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• [http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493%281976%29104%3C0475%3AENPTCO%3E2.0.CO%3B2 Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones of 1975]
• [http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/e_pacific/1975/index.html Unisys Weather archive for the Eastern Pacific, 1975]

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