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Mexico City, July 3 (EFE). - Tropical storm Flossie, which weakened early Thursday, continues to move away from the coast in the Pacific of Mexico, but will maintain rains in the south of the Baja California peninsula (northwest), reported the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
In its most recent report, the SMN said that as of 09:15 local time (15:15 GMT) Flossie was located approximately 315 kilometers (km) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur.
The storm has maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour (km/h), gusts of 95 km/h and is moving west-northwest at 17 km/h.
The SMN pointed out that, even though the system will continue to lose strength during the day, it will maintain showers, from 5 to 25 millimeters, on the coast of Baja California Sur.
It will also cause winds of 20 to 30 km/h with gusts of 40 to 60 km/h and waves of 2.5 to 3.5 meters (m) high in the same area.
"In the coming hours, Flossie will continue to gradually weaken as it moves over less warm waters, while moving away from the country's coasts," the agency specified.
Mexico anticipates up to 20 named cyclones in the Mexican Pacific; of which four to six could be category 3, 4, or even 5. So far, six storms have formed in the Mexican Pacific: Alvin, Barbara, Cosme, Laila, Erick, and Flossie.
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 effects on the electrical infrastructure, housing and falling trees.
