CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – Hurricane Genevieve weakened on Thursday and became a tropical typhoon after whipping Mexican resorts in Los Cabos with hurricane force gusts and heavy rains, and two new tropical depressions have formed in the Atlantic basin, either on possible trails to the United States. .
Genevieve had been a tough category four with winds of 215 km/h on Tuesday, but weakened over the Los Cabos area, the US National Hurricane Center said. But it’s not the first time
The media said the typhoon is expected to remain in the Pacific as it moves northwest along the Baja California coast and continues to weaken overnight, probably due to a tropical depression on Friday night. Flood.
The upper wave has already claimed two lives in the area. Cape San Lucas police said a 15-year-old woman caught in a giant wave and an adult tried to save her on Tuesday, both dead.
The middle of the hurricane said Genevieve’s sustained peak winds had fallen to a hundred km/h on Thursday night and concentrated about 110 kilometers southwest of Cabo San Lazarus, moving northwest at 17 km/h.
The typhoon cut off power and phone service in much of the Los Cabos area, flooded the streets of poor neighborhoods and downed palm trees in the tourist area. Los Cabos Mayor Armida Castro said that more than 800 people had gone to shelters in Cabo San Lucas and 250 had sought refuge in San José del Cabo, where distancing measures were established due to COVID-19.
Officials from the state of Baja California Sur said there were 15,000 foreign tourists in the state, most of them in the Los Cabos area, which had been virtually emptied of visitors due to pandemic restrictions.
Meanwhile, two new tropical depressions were formed in the Atlantic basin on Thursday, and tropical typhoon alerts were announced for several Caribbean islands and parts of Honduras.
The middle of the hurricane said tropical depression thirteen would probably be a tropical typhoon on Friday, then overlook the islands of Leeward, Puerto Rico, dominican Republic and Cuba. The early track, still uncertain, showed that it was potentially close to Florida on Monday as a hurricane.
On Thursday night, it focused about 445 miles (715 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands from the north with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 km / h) and headed sharply west-northwest at 22 mph (35 km / h).
Tropical Depression 14 was supposed to graze Honduras’ Atlantic coast, then turn north to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, probably through the force of a hurricane, and then potentially head toward the Texas or Louisiana coast, strengthening again in a hurricane. Friday.
On Thursday night, it focused about 110 kilometers east of Cabo Gracias a Dios, on the Honduras-Nicaragua border, with maximum sustained winds of 55 km / h (35 mph) and was heading west-northwest at 22 km / h.