Mexico City.– Two low pressure areas threaten to become tropical cyclones off the Mexican Pacific coast.
The National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported that the first of these zones is located 215 kilometers south-southwest of Barra de Tonalá, Chiapas, and has a 30 percent probability of cyclonic development in the next 48 hours.
The second zone is located 220 kilometers from Punta Maldonado, Guerrero, and is moving slowly towards the west-northwest. It maintains a probability of cyclonic development of 20 percent in 48 hours and 70 percent in 7 days. On the Atlantic side, meanwhile, another low pressure area has formed in the Caribbean with a 10 percent probability of cyclonic development in 48 hours and 40 percent in 7 days. It is located 1,080 kilometers southeast of Puerto Costa Maya, Quintana Roo.
Farther from the Mexican coast, 5,565 kilometers from Quintana Roo, tropical storm “Kirk” formed this Monday morning, the 11th cyclone of the season in the Atlantic.
The SMN predicted very heavy to intense rains between Tuesday and Thursday in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast and south of the national territory, and torrential to extraordinary occasional rains in Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas and Oaxaca.
“Over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, a cold front will move over the south and southeast of the United States, while its mass of cold air will flow over Mexican territory, causing a drop in temperatures over entities in the Mesa del Norte and the Central Table,” he noted in his Extended Forecast.
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