Mexico City.- Tropical storm “Alberto” formed over the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall tonight or in the early hours of tomorrow, Thursday, on the borders of Veracruz and Tamaulipas, reported the National Water Commission (Conagua).
The center of the first cyclone of the 2024 season is 250 kilometers east-northeast of Cabo Rojo, Veracruz, and 300 kilometers east of Tampico, Tamaulipas.
The system has maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour, gusts of 85 and a movement towards the west of 15 kilometers per hour.
The wide circulation of “Alberto” generates intense to torrential rains in the northeast, east and southeast of the country, in addition to the Yucatan Peninsula, as well as showers and heavy rains in the center of the Republic, according to the National Meteorological Service, an organization dependent on Conagua.
According to the authorities, the prevention zone for the effects of a tropical storm extends from the mouth of the Río Grande to Tecolutla, Veracruz.
In Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Puebla, torrential and intense rains are forecast for Zacatecas, Querétaro, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche and Quintana Roo.
Very heavy rains in Guanajuato, Tlaxcala and Yucatán and showers and heavy rains in the State of Mexico, Mexico City and Morelos.
All precipitation, Conagua explained, will be accompanied by electric shocks and possible hail.
Wind gusts of 70 to 90 kilometers per hour will affect the coasts of Tamaulipas and Veracruz, and 50 to 70 on the coasts of Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
The formation of sea storms along the coasts and waves of 2 to 4 meters high in Tamaulipas and Veracruz and 1 to 3 meters in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo is possible.
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