Tropical Storm Fausto strengthened from 45 mph at 0300 UTC on July 20 to 60 mph at 0900 UTC, while National Hurricane Center advisories kept the storm far southwest of Baja California and reported no coastal watches or warnings. [1] [2]

The paper's July 19 account stopped at a 35 mph depression over open water, with strengthening forecast and the later name excluded, while Monday's archived advisories close the naming and observed-intensity gaps without rewriting what forecasters knew Sunday.

At 1500 UTC, advisory 7 raised Fausto to 65 mph and forecast swells reaching western Baja California on Wednesday that were likely to produce life-threatening surf and rip currents, but it still listed no coastal watch or warning. [3]

Advisory 8 put maximum sustained winds at 70 mph at 2100 UTC, still classified Fausto as a tropical storm and forecast hurricane strength for later rather than reporting that threshold as reached, and placed the center about 745 miles southwest of Baja California's southern tip, moving northwest at 10 mph. [4]

The verbs matter because wind strength was observed by estimate while hurricane status and Baja surf remained forecasts; no advisory in this cutoff-safe stack records waves arriving, a rescue, an injury or a coastal warning, the required X search timed out without a verified status so platform weather reaction supplies no additional evidence, and later classification cannot be carried backward into July 20.

-- LUCIA VEGA, São Paulo