Mexico is often lashed by tropical storms — final 12 months’s deadliest was Hurricane Grace, pictured right here.
Hurricane Kay made landfall Thursday in northwestern Mexico earlier than dropping power because it moved inland, bringing heavy rain to components of the Baja California Peninsula, forecasters stated.
Kay got here ashore in a reasonably sparsely populated space as a Category One hurricane—the bottom on a scale of 5—and was later downgraded to a tropical storm.
At 0000 GMT Friday Kay was packing most sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour and positioned about 30 miles east of Punta Eugenia, in keeping with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).
“Kay continues to convey very heavy rains to parts of the Baja California Peninsula,” it stated.
Mexican authorities had earlier opened storm shelters and urged residents to take “excessive precautions” as a result of hazard of landslides and flooding.
Strong winds and heavy rain have been additionally anticipated throughout components of southern California and southwestern Arizona, the NHC stated.
Mexico is often lashed by tropical storms on each its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between the months of May and November.
This 12 months was the primary since 1997 that no tropical cyclones shaped within the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico in August, in keeping with the NHC.
The deadliest storm to hit Mexico final 12 months was a Category Three hurricane referred to as Grace that killed 11 individuals within the japanese states of Veracruz and Puebla in August.
Mexico’s Baja California braces for Hurricane Kay
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