The director general of the National Water Commission (Conagua), Roberto Ramírez de la Parra, reported that for the 2017 rainy season, 16 named tropical cyclones are planned for the Pacific Ocean basin Northeast and 11 for the Atlantic Ocean, totaling 27 in Region IV of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
In a statement, he explained that in the case of the Northeast Pacific Ocean basin, of the number of named cyclones, six would be tropical storms, four strong hurricanes, one or two on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and six intense categories three, four or five on the same scale . . .
