Baja Weather

Hurricane Norbert has struck
Mexico’s Baja California Sur peninsula with heavy rains and 103mph (165km/h) winds. The storm made landfall near the city of La Paz, blowing down roofs and uprooting trees. Thousands of residents have fled to shelters. Forecasters say Norbert will cross the Gulf of California, before making a second landfall on Mexico’s north-western mainland. It is expected to hit the agricultural states of Sonora and Sinaloa later. Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated to temporary shelters on Mexico’s Pacific coast as the storm came ashore, bringing with it 13ft (4m) waves.

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The National Hurricane Center issued the following public advisory at 8:00pm PDT:

Tropical storm Lowell get’s in shape off the southwestern mexican coast. At 8:00pm PDT the center of the newly-formed tropical storm Lowell was located near latitude 15.7 north longitude 106.4 west, what is approximately 265 miles - equals 430 kilometer - south-southwest of Manzanillo Mexico. His expected general motion for the next 48 hours is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 miles per hour.

Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph - equals 65 km/h - with higher gusts. Strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours and Lowell could be come a hurricane by Monday!

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Tropical storm Julio is spinning just off the tip of Baja California. No reports yet from Cabo San Lucas, but the port is surely closed, and the town is bracing for Julio’s landfall, expected later today. Local fleets are busy relocating their charter boats and making all necessary preparations for their personal families and properties. Farther up the peninsula, in the East Cape region, one resort sportfishing fleet is scrambling to pull boats, while others have already done so. Buena Vista resident Mark Rayor said he watched as a crew tried in vain to pull a rain-filled 28-foot cruiser out on a trailer. “They can’t bail it because waves keep coming over the transom,” Rayor said as the drama was unfolding. Rayor then added that visibility went to “zero” because of rain. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center had extended its storm warning, which is as follows:

“The government of Mexico has extended the tropical storm warning northward along the west coast of Baja California to Punta Abreojos … and northward along the east coast to Mulege. A tropical storm warning is now in effect from Punta Abreojos on the west coast around the peninsula and northward to Mulege on the east coast. A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours.”

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