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Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

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Hurricane Simon Strengthening Off the Coast of Mexico Published: Oct 4, 2014, 12:31 PM EDT weather.com

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HURRICANE SIMON

Simon has rapidly intensified in the last few hours and is now in the SoCal swell window.

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Intermediary Update for Saturday morning, October 4th

NOAA latest visible satellite loop of Tropical Storm Simon.

Quick, intermediary update on Simon as it has rapidly intensified in the last few hours:

Now a Cat 3 hurricane with 105kt sustained wind

Well within the SoCal swell window

Should take a more favorable track to the NW over the next 24-48 hours.

Not an especially big storm, but not tiny either (seems like the NHC might be underestimating the area of tropical storm force wind a bit based on satellite imagery)

Surf Potential for SoCal/N Baja: Improving and looking pretty good for early next week, assuming Simon behaves as forecast in the next 24-36 hours. We may start to see the first new signs of SE swell Sunday evening, but the bulk of the swell arrives for Mon/Tue. This isn't anywhere close to a Marie type swell, but could certainly produce head high waves for the better breaks in OC, Southern Ventura and Northern LA and overhead waves at standouts in North OC. Stay tuned, we'll have another blog update by this evening and, as always, you can check the Surfline Forecast for further details for your local area.

Look for a full update by this Saturday evening.

Image: The latest track and intensity forecast of Hurricane Simon from the National Hurricane Center (updated on Sat morning, Oct 4th at 8am).

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CURRENT STATUS: 18.6N, 109.8W as of 8:00AM PDT by the NHC on Friday, Oct 3rd 2014. Tropical Storm Simon is located around 295 miles south of the southern tip of Baja, and tracking WNW around 8kts. Max sustained winds are 50kts with central low pressure at 996mb.

STORM FORECAST: Simon continues to gradually become better organized, while tracking to the WNW into warmer waters and with little shear. This storm looks to turn NW then North over the next couple days, and likely becoming a hurricane (entering SoCal swell window later this afternoon).

Good Things About Simon for SoCal swell potential

1. Fairly large in size.
2. Expected to move into the SoCal swell window later this afternoon, and potentially curving northward over the next couple days (pushing toward SoCal).
3. Forecast to slowly strengthen over the next 24-48hrs to a hurricane.

The Not So Good Thing About Simon

1. At this time, not expected to become all that strong (more than a cat 1), but overall its looking pretty good for SoCal.

SWELL POTENTIAL FOR SOCAL AND BAJA NORTE: Looking very promising at this point. Simon is expected to enter the SoCal/Baja Norte swell window later this afternoon. And if it behaves as forecast, then SoCal and Baja Norte will see a bump of SSE tropical swell (156-165° at 9-12 seconds) build in late Sunday and top out on Monday into Tuesday, delivering fun size waves for the good SSE exposures. NOTE - Due to this extreme SSE angle, many locations will see much less or none of this swell. Strongest zone overall will be North OC, and North LA through Ventura will be decent as well.

SWELL POTENTIAL FOR BAJA SUR AND MEXICO: Much of Mainland Mex (primarily the central and northern coasts) are already seeing surf from Simon. In fact, the SW now shifting WSW'erly tropical swell is already on the way down for theManzanillo area, while a SW Southern Hemi groundswell has taken over (conditions improving too). Better wind/weather conditions prevail around Puerto Vallarta throughMazatlan with the swell building in further and peaking today, but also mixing with the primary SW Southern Hemi groundswell. The blend of these two swells are keeping the surf more broken up for the exposed beachbreaks.

For Baja Sur, the SSE shifting South Simon swell will build into Cabo and the East Cape today and peak tonight. The well exposed spots to the South-SE will offer head high to overhead surf from this swell before dark and then on Saturday morning. NOTE - Baja Sur is also seeing the good size dose of SW Southern Hemi groundswell for the more SW'erly exposed breaks of the region. Furthermore, this storm looks to stay far enough offshore (at least for now) from Baja Sur to allow good wind/weather conditions to prevail.

Stay tuned to each region's written forecast for more details.

Next Update: Saturday afternoon, Oct 4th.

-Jonathan Warren and the Surfline Forecast Team

Image 2: Surfline's HurricaneTrak, displaying Simon and its projected track/intensity.

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UPDATED: 10-2-14

CURRENT STATUS: 18.3N, 108.0W as of 2:00PM PDT on Thursday, Oct 2nd 2014. Tropical Storm Simon is located around 340 miles SSE of the southern tip of Baja, and tracking west around 8kts. Max sustained winds are 45kts with central low pressure at 998mb.

STORM FORECAST: Simon is gradually becoming better organized, while tracking to the WNW and hovering over warm waters in an environment with little shear. This storm looks to remain on the WNW heading over the next couple days (entering SoCal swell window on Saturday), before possibly turning more northward over the weekend.

Good Things About Simon for SoCal swell potential

1. Fairly large in size at the moment.
2. Forecast to eventually move into the SoCal swell window by Saturday AM, then possibly heading more northerly after that (pushing toward SoCal).
3. Forecast to slowly strengthen over the next 2-3 days.

The Not So Good Thing About Simon

1. Not very well organized at the moment.
2. May not become that strong of a system.

SWELL POTENTIAL FOR SOCAL AND BAJA NORTE: Still needs to track further west and enter the swell window first (likely by Saturday AM). However, if it stays on track, then SoCal and Baja Norte may see a fun size bump of SSE (156-165°) move in by early next week (Mon/Tues).

SWELL POTENTIAL FOR BAJA SUR AND MEXICO: Much of Mainland Mex (primarily the central coast) is already seeing surf from Simon, but stormy weather prevails for the stretch of coast closest to the storm, along with variable/problematic winds (mostly sloppy storm surf). Better wind/weather conditions prevail around Puerto Vallarta through Mazatlan with the swell building in Friday into Saturday.

Baja Sur will see SSE shifting South swell from Simon move in this weekend (starting late Friday for Cabo and the East Cape). At this time, well exposed spots will offer head high to overhead surf from this swell. Also, this storm looks to stay far enough offshore from Baja Sur to allow good wind/weather conditions to prevail.

Stay tuned to each region's written forecast for more details.

Next Update: Friday afternoon, Oct 3rd.

-Jonathan Warren and the Surfline Forecast Team

Image 2: Surfline's HurricaneTrak, displaying Simon and its projected track/intensity.

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Hurricane Central Hurricane Simon Strengthening Off the Coast of Mexico Published: Oct 4, 2014, 8:21 AM EDT weather.com

Hurricane Central

Hurricane Simon Strengthening

Off the Coast of Mexico

Published: Oct 4, 2014, 8:21 AM EDT weather.com

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Why Has Hurricane Season Been so Quiet?

Simon became the eighteenth named tropical storm of the 2014 eastern Pacific hurricane season off the coast of Mexico on October 2. By late October 3, Simon strengthened into the thirteenth hurricane of the Pacific Hurricane season.

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Hurricane Simon is embedded in an environment of relatively low wind shear (changing wind direction and/or speed with height typically hostile to developing or mature tropical cyclones), moist air, and warm sea-surface temperatures which should support strengthening for the next few days. In fact, Simon is expected to strengthen to a major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) by Sunday morning.

Simon is expected to track toward the west-northwest over the next several days, with its center likely to remain offshore of the Mexican Pacific coast.

With that said, outer rainbands on the periphery of Simon's circulation will continue to wring out locally heavy rain through early morning Saturday, which could trigger flash flooding and mudslides across western Jalisco, western Sinaloa, Nayarit in western Mexico as well as the southern tip of Baja. In addition, high surf and dangerous rip currents will also threaten coastal areas.

By Sunday, Simon's heavy rain and dangerous surf conditions will begin to affect the middle and southern extent of Baja California. As much as 5 to 10 inches of rain, as well as locally higher amounts of 15 inches, are expected to fall within Baja. Rain of this intensity would cause dangerous flash flooding and mudslides.

At this time, it appears this system is not a major threat to the storm-weary Baja Peninsula. Any possible north to northeast curve in track early next week will take Simon over cooler water and into an environment of increasing wind shear and more stable air, inducing weakening.

However, those in the area, including Los Cabos, may see locally heavy bands of rain the next several days on the outer periphery of Simon, which may trigger local flash flooding.

Here are the latest status and forecast maps on the system.

Projected Path

The latest forecast path and wind speeds from the National Hurricane Center.

Storm Information

Current Information

So, where exactly is the center located now? If you're plotting the storm along with us, the information depicted in the map above provides the latitude/longitude coordinates, distance away from the nearest land location, maximum sustained winds and central pressure (measured in millibars).

Infrared Satellite

This infrared satellite image shows how cold (and therefore how high) the cloud tops are. Brighter orange and red shadings concentrated near the center of circulation signify a healthy tropical cyclone.

Visible Satellite

This visible satellite image shows clouds as they would appear to the naked eye from outer space. As a result, this image will not show any data during local nighttime hours in the affected area.

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Hurricane Simon Intensifies off Mexico's Coast MIAMI — Oct 4, 2014, 11:41 AM ET

Hurricane Simon Intensifies off Mexico's Coast

MIAMI — Oct 4, 2014, 11:41 AM ET

Hurricane Simon has rapidly strengthened in Pacific waters hundreds of miles off the tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Simon's maximum sustained winds reached at 110 mph (175 kph) on Saturday. Forecasters say Simon is expected to become a major hurricane in coming hours and then begin to weaken Sunday.

The center says the hurricane is centered about 310 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja peninsula and is moving west-northwest at 13 mph (20 kph). There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

Simon is expected to produce 2 to 4 inches or more of rainfall in southwestern Mexico and swells generated by the hurricane could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.

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Simon becomes hurricane along Mexico's Pacific coast: forecasters

10/04/2014 05:24 GMT

MEXICO CITY, October 4, 2014 (AFP) - Simon strengthened to become the 13th named hurricane of the 2014 eastern North Pacific hurricane season as it swirled off the Mexican coast.

The small tropical cyclone, located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Socorro Island, was tracking west-northwestward at 19 kilometers per hour, according to the US-based National Hurricane Center.

It was a category one storm on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale, with top winds near 120 kilometers per hour.

"Some additional strengthening is possible during the next 24 hours, but a gradual weakening should begin thereafter," the NHC said.

It was expected to produce up to 38 centimeters of rain (15 inches) across Baja California Sur state.

"These rains could cause flash flooding and mudslides," according to the NHC.

It said swells generated by Simon affecting parts of the southwestern coast of Mexico "are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions."

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