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Reuters
2 days ago
- Climate
- Reuters
Erick becomes a hurricane off Mexico's Pacific Coast
MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Erick intensified into a hurricane off Mexico's Pacific Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday. Erick is expected to be the first hurricane to make landfall in Mexico this season, and would bring "life-threatening flash floods to portions of southern Mexico later tonight and Thursday", the NHC said in a report.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Climate
- Washington Post
A hurricane watch is in effect for southern Mexico as a depression in the Pacific gains strength
MIAMI — A hurricane watch was in effect Tuesday for southern Mexico as a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific gained strength. The depression was likely to become a tropical storm later Tuesday and a hurricane Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (56 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph), forecasters said. The depression would be named Erick when its winds reach tropical storm strength of 39 mph (63 kph).
