Mexico City.- The cyclone “Dolores” dissipated this Sunday in Mexican lands, where it left three dead due to electrical storms, floods with minor damages and more than 12 thousand users without electricity in the Pacific states.
Derived from the rains, a man died this Saturday for the lightning strike in Ciudad Guzmán, in the state of Jalisco, which was added to two deaths in San Nicolás Yaxe, in the southern state of Oaxaca, also due to an electric shock.
“Dolores” caused expectation this Saturday by becoming at 10:00 (15:00 GMT) the first named cyclone of this Pacific season to enter Mexico, where it made landfall as a tropical storm and then decreased to depression.
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported the service impact of 12,751 users in the states of Colima, Jalisco and Michoacán, although he clarified that this represents less than 1% of customers in the region.
In the state of Michoacán, floods, river overflows, stranded vehicles and damage to homes in about 20 municipalities.
In the state of Guerrero, in the south, there were damages in 11 different points, with at least 35 houses damaged and landslides.
National Meteorological Service called for extreme precautions against heavy rains
The National Meteorological Service (SMN) issued a last warning this Sunday of the cyclone due to its “weakening” in western Zacatecas.
Even so, he warned of “intense occasional rains” in Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Durango and Sinaloa, for which he asked the population to “exercise extreme caution.”
“The forecasted rains could generate an increase in the levels of rivers and streams, overflows, landslides and floods in low areas of land,” he considered.
The SMN stated that the remnants of Dolores they present maximum sustained winds of 35 kilometers per hour and gusts of 55 kilometers per hour with a displacement to the north of 19 kilometers per hour.
Mexican authorities have forecast up to 39 cyclones named for 2021, with a maximum of 20 in the Pacific and 19 in the Atlantic, so the season will be above average again.
Although the official start of the season is on May 15, Tropical Storm Andrés emerged on the 9th of that month, with a record advance, according to the National Water Commission (Conagua).
