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hilarywhich this Sunday was downgraded to a tropical storm and carries sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour, heads southwest of USA with the risk of producing “catastrophic floods” due to heavy rains, said the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of this country.
hilarywhich made landfall early this Sunday in Baja California (Mexico)and hours later it made landfall again in San Quintin, in the north of this peninsula, moving on firm ground heading north at 37 km/h.
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Located south-southeast of San Diego, Californiait is expected that towards the end of this afternoon the center of the storm will reach the south of this state, where meteorologists have alerted about the danger of flash floods in the center of The Angelsin addition to registering heavy rains, as in the states of Snowfall and Arizona.
Although it will hit the American Southwest weaker, forecasters from the NHC warn about tropical storm conditions and possible “catastrophic floods” as a consequence of the heavy rains in this area, where the authorities have asked the population to stay at home.
In Snowfallthe authorities of Clark County, where the city of Las Vegashave declared a state of emergency, while the Lake Mead recreational area, about 45 kilometers east of the casino city, has been closed.
in the neighbor Arizonathe Mojave County Sheriff’s Office has issued an evacuation order for parts of this area, while Sky Harbor International Airport, in Phoenixmore than 150 flights have been cancelled.
Since Saturday afternoon, residents of the mountain communities of Oak Glen, Forest Falls, Mountain Home Village, Angelus Oaks, and Northeast Yucaipa, in the Californian county of San Bernardino, have been under an evacuation order.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency in southern counties as a preventive measure before the arrival of hilarywhich is the first tropical storm to impact the south of this state in 84 years, according to local media.
The arrival of hilary has led to the deployment in this area of 7,500 National Guard troops, as well as personnel from the Federal Agency for Emergency Management (FEMA)which monitors the development of the storm.
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In a statement to CNN, the administrator of this government agency, Deanne Criswell, today asked residents to take the storm seriously.
The beaches of the Californian counties of San Diego and Orange are closed as a precautionary measure before the arrival of hilarywhich will produce accumulations of water of up to 15 centimeters in this area due to the rains, which will continue until Monday in southern California and Nevada.
In the town of phoenix in arizonameteorologists forecast heavy rains throughout today, while in Nevada local authorities expect the storm to cause up to 18 centimeters of rain in some parts, which would be a record in the state.
hilary One life has already been claimed, when a man tried to cross a stream aboard his car and was swept away by the current in the Mexican municipality of Mulegé, in Baja California Sur, local authorities reported.
He NHC warns that dangerous flooding can occur even as far as parts of the states of Idaho and Oregon, located north of California.
National parks such as Death Valley and Mojave have been closed as an emergency measure, and even the SpaceX firm postponed the launch of a rocket with satellites on board from California.
According to the specialized website FlightAware, this Sunday 80 flights that were to depart from terminals in the south of California.
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