Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Hurricane Pamela falls short of forecast but still dangerous rains and seas

In the early morning of Wednesday, at 4:00 am, Central Mexico time, Pamela increased the strength of her winds and is again a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale after weakening on Tuesday. At 7 am it made landfall between Mazatlán and San Ignacio with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour (km / h), a category 1 storm, far short of the category 3 predictions.

The system favors torrential rains (150 to 250 millimeters [mm]) in areas of Durango, Nayarit, and Sinaloa; very strong (from 50 to 75 mm) in Jalisco, as . . .

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