The name Aletta has been used for ten
tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...
s in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Tropical Storm Aletta (1974), made landfall in southwest Mexico.
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Hurricane Aletta (1978), a Category 1 hurricane that made landfall near
Zihuatanejo
Zihuatanejo (), and/or Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, is the fourth largest city in the Mexican state of Guerrero. It was known by 18th-century English mariners as Chequetan and/or Seguataneo. Politically the city belongs to the municipalities of Mexico, m ...
,
Guerrero
Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero, is one of the 32 states that compose the administrative divisions of Mexico, 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guerrero, 85 municipalities. The stat ...
.
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Tropical Storm Aletta (1982), moved erratically off the coast of southern Mexico
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Tropical Storm Aletta (1988), approached the
Acapulco
Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , ; ), is a city and Port of Acapulco, major seaport in the Political divisions of Mexico, state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Located on a deep, semicirc ...
area of the Mexican coast, but did not make landfall.
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Tropical Storm Aletta (1994), formed well away from land.
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Hurricane Aletta (2000), a Category 2 hurricane that stayed to the south of Mexico.
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Tropical Storm Aletta (2006)
The 2006 Pacific hurricane season was the first above-average season since 1997 which produced twenty-five tropical cyclones, with nineteen named storms, though most were rather weak and short-lived. There were eleven hurricanes, of which six ...
, brushed southwestern Mexico.
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Tropical Storm Aletta (2012), remained far out to sea.
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Hurricane Aletta (2018), a Category 4 hurricane that
rapidly intensified
Rapid intensification (RI) is any process wherein a tropical cyclone strengthens very dramatically in a short period of time. Tropical cyclone forecasting agencies utilize differing thresholds for designating rapid intensification events, th ...
from a tropical storm to Category 4 strength in 24 hours far off the coast of southwestern Mexico.
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Tropical Storm Aletta (2024), formed and remained in the open ocean.
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