Earl's surface circulation will continue to spin down and/or get ripped apart in southern Mexico, but its spin and moisture a few thousand feet above the surface may hold together.
Migrating westward, this remnant or "ghost" of Earl may eventually merge with another disturbance off southern Mexico's Pacific coast to help generate another tropical cyclone by early next week.
As of Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said there was a high chance a new tropical cyclone could form early next week off Mexico's Pacific coast.
Incidentally, since it wouldn't be the same surface circulation, it . . .
