Hurricane Lorena, which on Wednesday reached category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, remains active in the Pacific Ocean, and will cause heavy rains, winds and waves elevated in the next few hours in northwest Mexico, according to the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
In its most recent report, the agency said that at 06:00 local time, Lorena was located 180 kilometers (km) to the west-southwest of Cabo San Lázaro and 430 km south of Punta Eugenia, both locations in the state of Baja California Sur, northwest of the country.
The cyclone advances northwest at 13 kilometers per hour (km/h), with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/hypas that reach 160 km/h.
The SMN foresaw that the system will continue to weaken to tropical storm during the day near the Peninsula of Baja California.
In addition, he warned that torrential rains (150 to 250 millimeters) are foreseen in Baja California Sur; intense (75 to 150 mm) in the south of Baja California, the west and southern Sonora and in the north and the coast of Sinaloa; Very strong (50 to 75 mm) in Durango, and strong (25 to 50 mm) in Chihuahua.
On the wind forecast, gust of between 100 and 120 km/h on coasts of Baja California Sur, and 40 to 60 km/h in the Gulf of California, Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa.
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Hurricane Lorena will cause torrential rains and strong waves in Sonora and Sinaloa
Likewise, an elevated waves of 4.5 to 5.5 meters high on the western coast of Baja California Sur, 2.5 to 3.5 meters high on the coast of Sinaloa and 1.5 to 2.5 meters high on the eastern coast of Baja California Sur, the south of the Gulf of California and the western coast of Baja California.
The SMN said that, in coordination with the National Hurricane Center of the United States, it maintains prevention zone due to tropical storm effects from Santa Fe Punta Eugenia, in Baja California Sur and surveillance zone due to the effect of tropical storm winds from Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, to Bahía de los Angeles, in Baja California.
Therefore, he asked the population to serve their notices and follow the civil protection recommendations against rainfall accompanied by electrical discharges and hail, the possible flooding, landslides and floods in the low areas of the states, and the damages caused by the winds.
Mexico foresees up to 20 cyclones with name in the Pacific, of which between four and six could be category 3, 4 and even 5.
So far eleven storms have formed in the Mexican Pacific: Alvin, Bárbara, Cosme, Dalila, Erick, Flossie, Gil, Henriette, Ivo, Juliette and Kiko.
The last hurricane registered in the country was Erick, which touched land in southern Mexico on June 19 as hurricane category 3 and caused damage mainly in Oaxaca and Guerrero, causing the death of a minor and diverse effects on electrical infrastructure, homes and tree falls.
With EFE information.
