Priscilla became more powerful on Monday after having strengthened in a hurricane in southwest Mexico during the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said, and was to bring heavy rains and gusty winds in the region.
A tropical storm watch was published by Punta San Telmo in Punta Mita, Mexico.
The track and forecasts of the Priscilla Hurricane
On its forecasting track, the Center of Priscilla “should move offshore and parallel to the south-west coast of Mexico and Baja California on, from early part to Milieu this week,” said the center, adding that “an additional reinforcement is planned, and Priscilla should become a category 2 hurricane and could approach the status of the major hurricane in the coming days” before From the beginning of the way in which the hem start.
Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds at least 96 mph. The main categories of hurricane start at 3, with a minimum of sustained winds of 111 MPH.
Noaa / National Hurricane Center
From the EDT of the NHC update at 4 am on Monday, the storm was located around 245 miles in the south-south-west of Cabo Corrientes, near the seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta, and around 430 miles in the south-south-east of the southern tip of California of Baja.
He traveled to the north-northwest to 7 mph with maximum winds supported by 85 mph.
Noaa / National Hurricane Center
Although Priscilla should not directly touch the land, the Hurricane center said: “Priscilla’s exterior bands will continue to bring heavy rains to parts of the southwest Mexico today”, with 2 to 4 inch expected and up to 6 inches in certain places, enough to “bring a risk of sudden flood, in particular in the upper ground zones”.
The swells generated by Priscilla began to affect certain parts of the southwest coast of Mexico and will go to parts of the
The Mexican Coast of the Center-West and the Southern California Peninsula