Hurricane Paul was the sixteenth tropical storm and tenth hurricane in the 1982 Pacific hurricane season. Making landfall on Central America as a tropical depression, it unleashed torrential rainfall across the mountainous region, causing deadly mudslides that killed over 1,000. Paul later struck the Baja California Peninsula, where it caused moderate damage as a Category 2 hurricane. The hurricane was the second deadliest Eastern Pacific tropica...
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Hurricane Paul was the sixteenth tropical storm and tenth hurricane in the 1982 Pacific hurricane season. Making landfall on Central America as a tropical depression, it unleashed torrential rainfall across the mountainous region, causing deadly mudslides that killed over 1,000. Paul later struck the Baja California Peninsula, where it caused moderate damage as a Category 2 hurricane. The hurricane was the second deadliest Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone of all time, only behind the 1959 Mexico Hurricane.
A large tropical disturbance moved across Nicaragua from September 15 to the 17th. Convection continued to build, and upon reaching a position 200 miles (320 km) offshore of Managua on the 18th, the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center declared it Tropical Depression Twenty-Two after a circulation developed. Rather than taking the typical Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone track to the west, it drifted northward, a movement caused by its centering between two high pressure cells. Early on...
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