The Tropical Dalila storm has lost intensity while moving away from the coast of the Mexican Pacific, but will maintain strong -to -intense rains in at least five states in the country, according to the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
According to the latest NMN notice, at 12:00 local time (18:00 GMT), Dalila was located 335 kilometers (km) west-southwest of Playa Perula, in the western state of Jalisco, and 420 km to the west-southwest of Manzanillo, in the western Colima.
The phenomenon, the second with name in the 2025 season, presented sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour (km/h) and gusts up to 100 km/h, moving west-northwest to 15 km/h.
“The circulation of the tropical storm Dalila maintains the probability of heavy rains to intense punctual, strong winding and waves elevated in Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima and Michoacán,” said the agency of the National Water Commission (Conagua).
Previously, the SMN reported that “the prevention zone was discontinued due to tropical storm winds from Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán (west), to Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco.”
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However, authority pointed out that “even though the tropical storm Dalila began to reduce the intensity of its winds and to gradually move away from the coasts of Mexico,” maintains heavy rains (from 75 to 150 mm) in Nayarit and Jalisco; Very strong (50 to 75 mm) in Sinaloa and Michoacán, and strong (25 to 50 mm) in Colima ”.
In addition, he indicated that winds of up to 40 km/hy wave of up to 3.5 meters high on the coasts of Jalisco and Colima are foreseen, as well as winds of up to 30 km/hy wave of up to 2.5 meters in Nayarit, Michoacán and Sinaloa.
In its passage along the Mexican coast, Dalila has left damage to the infrastructure, such as restaurants and ceilings of collapsed buildings, fallen trees, flooded streets and landslides in main avenues of the port of Acapulco, Guerrero, previously affected by the Hurricanes Otis (2023) and John (2024).
Material effects have also been reported in the states of Chiapas (South), Michoacán and Colima, where shelters for the population have been enabled.
In addition, in Tapachula, Chiapas, a young Colombian died after being dragged by water currents when trying to uncover a covered strain, according to local media reports.
The current hurricane season in the Mexican Pacific began on May 15 with the formation of Alvin, the first of at least 16 planned systems.
Mexican authorities anticipate up to 37 cyclones with name in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in this season, of which five could affect the country.
In the 2024 hurricane season, Mexico was hit by the Pacific by Hurricane John who touched land in September as category 3, leaving 29 dead in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacán.
With EFE information
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