Cuts in roads, trees and fallen poles left on the southern Pacific coast of Mexico the passage of Agathawhich made landfall as a category 2 hurricane and this Tuesday was downgraded to a tropical depression.
(Read: Agatha makes landfall in southwestern Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane)
The government of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (south), which directly received the impact of the phenomenon, reported that there were no personal injuries and that the materials were scarce.
“The greatest impact we have is basically on the highways, we have certain impacts, but by noon communications should be restored,” Alejandro Murat, governor of Oaxaca, told the Televisa network.
At 12:00 GMT, 7:00 am Mexican time, the tropical depression was over land 90 km from the port of Salina Cruz. Agatha registered winds of 55 km / h and was advancing at 13 km / h, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.
“Agatha is expected to weaken further and dissipate in the afternoon in southern Mexico,” the NHC detailed in a bulletin. The phenomenon made landfall as a hurricane 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (of 5) on Monday afternoon west of Puerto Ángel, a coastal community of about 2,500 inhabitants in Oaxaca.
Authorities had located some 5,240 tourists in the area, which is home to resorts such as Puerto Escondido and Huatulco, popular with European tourists and American surfers.
The Mexican Meteorological Service reported that there is a 60 percent chance that, in five days, the remnants of Agatha will cross the Tehuantepec Strait to reach the Atlantic with potential for cyclone formation.
“Yeswill continue to leave important rains still as a remnant“, reported from his side Civil Protection of Oaxaca, which keeps classes and different activities suspended. Agatha is the first storm of the 2022 season in the Pacific.
Every year Mexico suffers the onslaught of tropical cyclones on both its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November. The 2021 hurricane season, which runs from May 15 to November 30, was moderately active with 40 events. Of these, 15 were hurricanes, according to the Mexican Meteorological.
‘An active season’
This Wednesday, June 1, the hurricane season officially begins in the Atlantic, which, according to all forecasts, is going to be above average in number of cyclones.
NHC forecasts for a five-day period indicate that there is a 60% chance that a named storm will develop in the Gulf of Mexicowhich would be called Alex, according to the list prepared for 2022 by the International Meteorological Organization.
Regardless of whether it forms or not, the southern Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean, Cuba and Florida (USA) included, are going to be drenched in heavy rain this week.
Between 14 and 21 named storms, of which between 6 and 10 develop into hurricanes and 3 to 6 of these major cyclones is what the US Ocean and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) forecasts for this year in the Atlantic basin.
The public body reported last week its forecasts for 2022, which will have a new “active” season, which, in other words, means abundant cyclones in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic.
The odds of it being an above-normal season like the previous seven are 65 percent, according to NOAA, which released its forecasts just days before the season officially kicks off, which runs from June 1 to June 30. november.
The absolute record for now is held by the 2020 season, the year of the covid-19 pandemic, according to the records of the National Hurricane Center (CNH), dependent on NOAA.
That year 30 named storms formed, of which 14 became hurricanes and seven of these major hurricanes, that is, category 3 to 5, which is equivalent to winds greater than 111 miles per hour (178 km / h).
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*With information from EFE and AFP
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