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TOURIST CARDS AT TIJUANA:

Stay in the far right lane under the sign “For Declaration Only”, park and walk to the Immigration office in the long building to the right. Obtain your Tourist Card (FMT) form there, fill it out and go to the nearby bank to pay for it. Then return to the Immigration office to have it validated. Always ask for the maximum of 180 days. FMT’s AT TECATE: it is easier to park on the U.S. side, walk across to Immigration in the building on your right and use the bank across the street. Again, Always ask for the maximum of 180 days.

RIPOFFS

Police mordida in Tecate. Pemex stations in Ensenada on the east side of the highway leaving town and Santa Rosalia in town.

GENERAL ROAD REPORT

1) Hiway 1 good in Baja Norte. Potholes around Catavina and San Ignacio. 2) Much roadwork from Loreto-Insurgentes with roughness. 3) L.A. Bay road excellent with new paving. 4) San Felipe-Puertecitos road paved and very smooth. 5) Watch for speed-reducer strips before topes, sharp curves and steep downgrades.

FUEL RATES

Magna Sin (87 octane) 6.6 pesos/liter, $2.37/gal: Premium (93 octane) 8.2 pesos/liter, $2.91/gal: Diesel 5.6 pesos/liter, $2.00/gal. At Catavina and L.A Bay Junction Magna Sin from barrels - 5 gal minimum.

UPDATES

New gas station at L.A. Bay. Gas station at Catavina OPEN. Mainland Vehicle Fee - $30.00 Tolls - Tijuana-Ensenada 25 pesos per axle.

Baja Safari NOW Editor

The Tropical Eastern Pacific will be active this season. Our diagnosis of the oceanographic and atmospheric conditions to the month of January of 2007, of the anomalies of the temperature of the sea, of the circulation in mean levels (700 hPa) of the equatorial troposphere, as well as of the cloudy zones of the strip of the equatorial Pacific (radiation of long wave), the prognosis for the months of May to September of 2007 considers like analogs to the years of 1964, 1966, 1988 and 1995, that are the years that showed to the greater correlations with the present conditions (Bulletin of the seasonal climatologic prognosis of the anomaly of rain from the BWS).

Making the average of the analogous seasons it is observed that the activity of the 2007 tropical season in the Northeastern Pacific, is forecasted below average from 1970 to 2006, with the potential formation of 14 tropical systems, of which 7 would reach the intensity of tropical storm, 6 moderate hurricanes and 1 intense hurricanes.

Note of caution: The results of the long term projections must take with the reserves from the case due to the variations in distribution and intensity from the patterns from circulation from the atmosphere and the ocean. The present information must be considered as it guides for the planning and prevention.

Summary Prognosis of the cyclonic activity for the 2007 North Eastern Pacific - Western Mexico Cyclogenesis

Baja Weather Service Forecast 2007                Season Averages

Tropical Storms                                 7                          6.9

Hurricanes (Cat. 1 & 2)                    6                          4.2

Hurricanes (Cat. 3,4,5)                    1                          4.1

Season Total                                    14                        15.2

SOURCE: Baja Weather Service

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