Tropical Storm Pilar causes “torrential” rain and waves in southeastern Mexico

O Tropical Storm Pilar This Tuesday will cause “torrential rains”, gusts of wind and waves in the southeast of Mexicoreported the National Meteorological Service (SMN).

In the SMN’s last record, the cyclone was 410 kilometers southeast of the mouth of the Suchiate River, on the border between Mexico It is Guatemalaand 280 kilometers south-southwest of San Salvador, El Salvador.

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“Its broad circulation will interact with cold front number 8 located in the south and east of Gulf of Mexicowill produce occasional torrential rain in Chiapas and Oaxaca, as well as very strong to intense gusty wind and high waves in the Gulf in Tehuantepec”, warned the weather alert.

The phenomenon features sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour, gusts of 100 kilometers per hour and a displacement heading east-northeast at 6 kilometers per hour.

The trajectory planned by SMN suggests that Pilar will move away from land during its advance across the Mexican Pacific, where it would remain as tropical storm until the Next sunday.

Even so, the organization recommended “take extreme precautions for the general population in the areas of the mentioned states due to rain, winds and waves, including maritime navigation, and follow the recommendations issued by the authorities of the National Civil Protection System”.

O storm pillar arrive later Otiswhich last Wednesday reached category 5 in the southern state of Guerrero, where it broke the record for the intensification of a cyclone in Mexico and has left, so far, 46 dead and almost 60 missing.

Pilar is the 16th cyclone named this season in the Pacific, where they previously formed Adrian, Beatriz, Calvin, Dora, Eugene, Fernanda, Greg, Hilary, Irwin, Jova, Kenneth, Lidia, Max, Norma and Otis.

Of these, the most damaging was Otis and before Hilarywhich in August left four dead in the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sinaloaall in the north of Mexico.

He Government of Mexico In May, it predicted the formation of up to 38 named cyclones in the 2023 season, of which five could hit the country.

Source: Elcomercio

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