CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – Two tropical depressions are expected to re-shape at opposite ends of the Caribbean to turn into tropical storms on Friday, and meteorologists project possible airstrips for either that could take them to the United States, in all likelihood in the form of hurricanes.
Meanwhile, tropical storm Genevieve in the Pacific continued to weaken as it lingered off the Baja California peninsula in southern Mexico as it hit the coast with strong winds and rains that threatened damaging flooding.
The two tropical depressions formed Thursday and tropical typhoon alerts were posted for several islands in the far eastern Caribbean, while a tropical typhoon warning was posted in the border region between Honduras and Nicaragua, west of the sea. for the southern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
The U. S. National Hurricane Center has been in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time He said tropical depression thirteen would probably be a tropical typhoon on Friday and then overlook the islands of Leeward, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Hurricane.
By Friday morning, the formula focused about 305 miles (490 kilometers) east of the leeward islands from the north with sustained maximum winds of 35 mph (55 km/h) and heading sharply west-northwest at 21 mph (33 km/h). .
Tropical Depression 14 is expected to spray Honduras’ Atlantic coast, then move north to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, in all likelihood with hurricane force, and then potentially move to the Texas or Louisiana coast until Tuesday, strengthening into a hurricane. A tropical typhoon is expected on Friday.
On Friday morning, it focused about forty-five kilometers northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios, on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua, with sustained maximum winds of 55 km/h, heading west-northwest at 19 km/h.
Genevieve, which had been a tough category four hurricane with winds of 215 km/h on Tuesday, had weakened to a tropical typhoon on Thursday as it advanced northwest toward the Pacific in front of Mexican resorts in Los Cabos. It is expected to continue to weaken overnight, probably coinciding with a tropical depression on Friday night.
The hurricane in the middle said Genevieve’s sustained peak winds fell to 85 km/h on Friday morning and were concentrated about 210 km west-southwest of Cabo San Lazarus, moving west-northwest at 10 mph (17 km/h).
The typhoon cut off power and telephone service in much of the Los Cabos area flooded the streets of the deficient neighborhoods and the most sensitive palm trees in the tourist area. The most sensitive swell killed two other people on Tuesday as the typhoon approached.
Officials from the state of Baja California Sur said 15,000 foreign tourists were in the state, most of them in the Los Cabos area, which had been emptied to the max due to pandemic restrictions.