Whether it is climate change or not, The hurricane season in the Pacific this year is very intense. Now Willa” Mexico seeks “. Holiday places are affected.
As the highly dangerous hurricane “Willa” moves slowly on the Mexican Pacific coast with its seaside resorts. He should still meet on Tuesday to the South of the port city of Mazatlan on the country such as the US hurricane-told the center. In the Morning, he reached wind speeds of 225 kilometers per hour and was moving at 15 kilometers per hour northward. The Mexican authorities prepared for evacuations. You can expect Flooding and landslides. The army and the Navy have been alerted.
Two cruise ships could not be arriving as planned on Wednesday in Mazatlan, reported the newspaper “El Universal”, citing the Minister of tourism of the state of Sinaloa, Oscar Pérez Barros. Mazatlan is a popular beach resort in the North-West of Mexico. Further South, in the Puerto Vallarta, the Governor of the state of Jalisco, Aristóteles Sandoval ordered, according to the press, the evacuation of the hotel zone on reports, as a precautionary measure.
Resort of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico
The cyclone has weakened since Monday, easily, but it is more than extremely dangerous. For the section of coast between San Blas in the state of Nayarit, and Mazatlan, as well as the upstream Marias Islands hurricane warning was. After landfall, the forecasters expect that “Willa” is weakening on Wednesday quickly.
Hurricane “Willa” on 22. October 2018
Its Name speaks for a very active hurricane season in the Pacific: The tropical storms are named each year in alphabetical order. In the until the end of November and the season in the Pacific, it is already reached “W”; the last Atlantic storm was two weeks ago, “Nadine”.
“Willa’s” predecessor, tropical storm “Vicente”, was dissolved on Tuesday to the South of the seaside resort of Manzanillo gradually and reached wind speeds of 65 kilometers per hour. The forecasters warned of heavy rain. The extent to which the frequency of cyclones with climate change, is debated in the research.
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