Storm Ivo maintains its advance in the Mexican Pacific and will cause very heavy rains

The rainfall could be accompanied by electrical discharges and hail

Mexico City.- The tropical storm Ivo, the ninth cyclone of the season, maintains its advance towards the coasts of the Mexican Pacific at a distance of 245 kilometers (km) south of Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur) and 460 km west of Cabo Corrientes (Jalisco) with a displacement towards the west-northwest of 26 km per hour, reported this Friday the National Meteorological Service (SMN). The agency announced that the storm will cause heavy or very heavy rainfall in different states of the Mexican territory with intense gusts of wind and high waves on the coasts of Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco and Baja California Sur (northwest and west of the country).

The meteorological phenomenon maintains maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour (km/h), with gusts reaching 110 km/h.

The service dependent on the National Water Commission (Conagua) indicated that the cloud detachments of the system will cause very heavy rains in the south of Baja California Sur, Durango, Sinaloa and Jalisco and wind gusts of 50 to 70 km/h, as well as waves that will reach between one meter and four meters in height on the coasts of those states. While heavy rains are expected in Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Colima, Michoacán, Mexico City, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo. The SMN warned that rainfall could be accompanied by electrical discharges and hail, and generate waterlogging, landslides and floods in low-lying areas of the affected states. He also asked to increase caution against the rains and winds, which could knock down trees and billboards, and to heed the recommendations issued by the authorities of the National Civil Protection System, in each entity.

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Mexico anticipates up to 20 named cyclones in the Mexican Pacific, of which between four and six could be category 3, 4 and even 5.

So far, eight storms have formed in the Mexican Pacific: Alvin, Bárbara, Cosme, Dalila, Erick, Flossie, Gil, and Henriette.

The last hurricane recorded in the country was Erick, which made landfall in southern Mexico on June 19th as a category 3 hurricane and caused damage mainly in Oaxaca and Guerrero, causing the death of a minor and various damages to the electrical infrastructure, homes and falling trees.