Hurricane Ágatha, category 2, made landfall this Monday in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, leaving rains in the south and southeast of the country, after having formed in the Pacific, according to the National Meteorological Service (SMN) .
In a statement, the agency indicated that “the center of Hurricane Agatha, category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall in the town of La Redonda, municipality of San Pedro Pochutla, Oaxaca, approximately at 000: 30 hours local time”.
He added that at 08: 00 local time, the cyclone is localized 00 kilometers west of Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, with maximum sustained winds of 165 kilometers per hour, gusts of 205 km/h and offset northeast to 13 km/h.
Ágatha, which was forecast to make landfall as a category 3 hurricane, is the first cyclone of the season in the Pacific Ocean.
After making landfall, the SMN maintained its forecast of extraordinary punctual rains in Oaxaca, torrential in Chiapas , intense in regions of Guerrero, Tabasco and Veracruz and very strong in localities of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán.
In addition, he said that the winds of 140 a 170 km/h and waves of 6 to 8 meters high on the coast of Oaxaca, and gusts of 78 a 110 km/h with waves from 4 to 6 m high on the coast of Chiapas and Guerrero.
He recalled that rainfall could “generate landslides, increased in the levels of rivers and streams, and overflows and floods in low-lying areas, for which he urged the population to heed the warnings from the SMN and follow the indications of the state, municipal and Civil Protection authorities.
He also called on maritime navigation in the vicinity of the system to take extreme precautions due to winds and waves off the coasts of the mentioned states.
Previously, civil protection authorities reported that at least 40 Municipalities in the state of Oaxaca were on alert for “maximum danger” in the face of the cyclone’s imminent landfall.
“We have a red alert, that is, maximum danger, at 75 municipalities in Oaxaca and in orange alert, high danger, to 294 municipalities, of which 286 are in Oaxaca and 8 in Chiapas,” Laura Velázquez said at a press conference. , national coordinator of Civil Protection.
Because of this, she specified, has alerted 46,000 people in Oaxaca, of which 2.652 are tourists, in addition to the fact that they have been enabled 215 temporary shelters with capacity for 27,675 people and 140 health care facilities in the area of possible impact.
The official explained that since 28 of May, notice was given of the closure of beaches in the area and closure of all activity on 29 of May, in addition to the closure of ports to smaller vessels in Acapulco, in Guerrero; Huatulco, Puerto Ángel and Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca, and Puerto Chiapas, in the state of the same name.
Similarly, school activities were suspended on the coast, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the northern and southern highlands, and the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, in addition to the closure of schools in the mountains and on the coast of Guerrero.
Does 10 days, the SMN notified of the formation of until 40 named tropical phenomena for 2022, which he described as an “active season”, and predicted that of the total, both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific, at least five will impact the country.
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