Hurricane Sandra

Sandra is a Category 4 hurricane in the Eastern Pacific. The storm will hit Mexico. Sandra breaks several records. It is the first observed Category 4 hurricane on Thanksgiving Day. It is the latest major Western Hemisphere hurricane observed. It is the latest Category 4 storm in either the eastern Pacific of Atlantic basins. Most likely, Sandra will become the latest landfalling tropical cyclone on record for Mexico. (Jeff Masters has details.) Sandra will come near the southern time of the Baja late Friday, but will likely be a tropical storm at that point. The storm will come ashore…