The tormenta tropical Ileanawhich is generating strong winds, high waves and very heavy and intense rains accompanied by electrical discharges and possible hail in the northwest and west of Mexico, is approaching Los Cabos, a vacation area in the extreme south of Baja California, where nearly 200 hotels are grouped.
In its most recent report, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) stated that at 9:00 p.m. local time (03:00 GMT on Friday) Ileana was located approximately 305 kilometers (km) west-northwest of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, and 255 km southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. The storm registered Maximum sustained winds of 75 km/hgusts of 95 km/h and moving north-northwest at 19 km/h.
Tropical Storm Ileana is moving toward southern Baja California, where the tourist area known as Los Cabos is located. Source: National Hurricane Center
Ileana’s career
According to forecasts, It is expected to make landfall in the tourist town of San Jose del Cabo. (Baja California Sur). Given these conditions, the agency indicated that a prevention zone for tropical storm effects is maintained from Santa Fe to San Evaristo, Baja California Sur, and a surveillance zone for tropical storm effects is maintained from San Evaristo to Loreto, also in Baja California Sur, and from Topolobampo, Sinaloa, to Huatabampito, Sonora.
“The precipitations could be accompanied by electric shocksas well as causing landslides, increased levels of rivers and streams, overflows and flooding in areas of the aforementioned states, for which reason the population is urged to heed the warnings of the SMN and follow the recommendations of state authorities and Civil Protection,” the agency said.
The SMN warned that during the night of Thursday and early hours of Friday, the tropical storm had generated heavy rains (from 75 to 150 millimeters) [mm]) in Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa; very strong (50 to 75 mm) in the south of Baja California Sur.
Daily and hourly coastal watches and warnings. Source: National Hurricane Center
In addition to wind gusts of 50 to 70 kilometers per hour (km/h), waves of 2 to 4 meters (m) high and the possibility of waterspouts on the coasts of Jalisco and Nayarit, as well as waves of 1 to 3 m possible waterspouts on the coast of Baja California Sur, Colima and Sinaloa.
This Thursday, the head of the SMN, Alejandra Méndez Girón, said in a press conference that due to the effects of the system from September 12 to 16, accumulated increases were expected Rainfall of 200 to 250 millimeters (mm) in Baja California Sur, southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, and 100 to 150 mm in Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima.
Mexico
Last May, Mexican authorities predicted up to 41 named cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceansof which at least five would hit the country, a figure above average in both cases.
Until now, Three cyclones have hit Mexico, the three in the Atlantic: the huracán Beryl and the storm chriswhich left a blank balance in July, and the storm alberto in June, when it left six dead in Nuevo León, a state on Mexico’s northern border.
In the Pacific, 15 to 18 named systems were forecast, of which between 8 and 9 would be tropical storms4 to 5 category 1 or 2 hurricanes, and 3 to 4 level 3 to 5 hurricanes.
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