Hurricane Hillary is approaching California and it’s scary

2023-08-19 08:21:12

Time.news-L‘uragano Hilarywhich has strengthened up to the category 4 in the Pacific of Mexicomaintains its intensity and advances towards the peninsula of Baja California where it is estimated that it will make landfall this weekend before entering California.

According to the National Meteorological Service Hilary was located 495 kilometers south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, the most popular tourist destination in northern Mexico, and 565 kilometers south of Santa Fe, in the same state.

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Mexican military patrols Medano beach ahead of Hurricane Hilary

The cyclone, which emerged Wednesday as a tropical storm, heading northwest with speeds of 19km/h, sustained winds of 215km/h and gusts up to 260km/h. The weather phenomenon will cause “occasional heavy” rains in Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit, as well as “very heavy” rains in Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan On the coasts of Baja California Sur are instead expected wind gusts of 80 to 100 kilometers per hour and waves of 5 to 7 meters high.

I am wind gusts of 60 to 80 kilometers are expected times and high waves from 3 to 5 meters also on the coast of Nayarit and Jalisco; as well as wind gusts of 40 to 60 kilometers per hour and waves of 2 to 4 meters high on the west coast of Baja California and on the coasts of Sinaloa, Colima and Michoacan. Hilary could make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Baja California on Sunday while it would enter US territory as a tropical storm on Monday.

For this the agency has recommended “extreme caution to the population generally in areas of states cited by rain, wind, and waves.” In addition, it said it maintains a hurricane avoidance zone from Punta Abreojos, Baja California Sur, to San Quintin in Baja California and a hurricane watch zone from San Quintin in Ensenada, Baja California.

Beyond that, it remains a tropical storm warning zone from south of Punta Abreojos, Baja California Sur north to Guaymas Sonora and a tropical storm warning zone from Huatabampito to Guaymas Sonora and north of Ensenada, Baja California, on the border with the United States.