Puerto Vallarta beaches are closed due to high waves

January 14, 2023

Due to high waves recorded on the coast of Jalisco, beaches in Puerto Vallarta have been closed under red flag warnings.

This is due to an extratropical cyclone that hit the western United States, generating high waves on the Pacific coast.

According to the meteorologist Víctor Manuel Cornejo López, a member of the Bahía's Scientific Committee for Civil Protection, a large area of ​​strong waves advancing southward, that is, towards Baja California on the south side, emerged from this bad weather on the Pacific and later in seas off the Bah . . .

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