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Former Hurricane Sandra weakened to a remnant on the morning of Nov. 28, 2015, failing to break the record for the latest landfall on record in a calendar year for an Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone.

Wind shear took its toll on Sandra as it got caught up in the subtropical jet stream. Before Sandra rapidly weakened, it became an unusually strong for so late in the tropical season.

<img class="styles__noscript__2rw2y" src="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/sandra_2015_track.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0" srcset="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/sandra_2015_track.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 400w, https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/sandra_2015_track.jpg?v=ap&w=980&h=551&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 800w" > Hurricane Sandra Track History After forming on Nov. 23, this tropical system persisted until Nov. 28, when Sandra became post-tropical.

Rarities and Records

On Thursday morning, Nov. 26, Sandra became the latest Category 4 hurricane of record in either the eastern Pacific or Atlantic basins.

The previous latest Category 4+ tropical cyclone in either the eastern Pacific or Atlantic basins was Hurricane Kenneth on Nov. 22, 2011.

Sandra also became the strongest hurricane so late in the season.

Only three other eastern Pacific storms have formed later in the calendar than Sandra in records dating to 1949 .

Hurricane Sandra became the second-latest-forming hurricane on record, behind Hurricane Winnie in 1983.

Sandra failed to break the record for latest landfalling Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone on record. According to hurricane specialist Michael Lowry, the latest eastern Pacific landfall on record was (and remains) Tara on Nov. 12, 1961.

The previous latest major hurricane in either the central-eastern Pacific or Atlantic was an unnamed storm in 1934 that remained a major hurricane into Nov. 23.

Sandra became the 30th Category 3+ tropical cyclone of 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere, far exceeding the previous record of 23 such storms in 1997 and 2004.

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