Heavy rain and hail forecast in 13 states

The National Metereological Service (SMN) of Mexico predicted, for the next few hours and during the first hours of Tuesday, intense punctual rains with electric shocks and hailstorms in 13 states of the country.

In a statement, the SMN indicated that intense punctual rains (75 to 150 millimeters (mm)) will occur in regions of Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tamaulipas.

“The rains will be with downloads electricity, strong winds and possible hail, while in Coahuila y New Lion there could be whirlwinds,” the report said.

In addition, he warned that rainfall “could cause landslides, increase in the levels of rivers and streams, and floods in low areas of all the states mentioned” and urged the population to heed the meteorological warnings and follow the indications of the state, municipal and municipal authorities. Civil protection.

The Mexico Meteorological He explained that the conditions described will be propitiated by the following meteorological systems: a low pressure system over the north of the country, instability at high levels of the atmosphere and the Mexican monsoon, positioned in the northwest of the country.

In addition to extended low pressure channels in different regions of the territory national and the entry of moisture from the Pacific Ocean and Tropical Wave number 22.

On the other hand, the SMN indicated that in the ocean Peaceful “Tropical Storm Ivette developed from Tropical Depression Ten-E.”

The cyclone was located approximately 710 kilometers southwest of Cabo San LucasBaja California Sur, with maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour, gusts of 85 kilometers per hour and moving west at 4 kilometers per hour.

“The system does not affect the country and is gradually moving away from its coasts, despite this increase in its intensity, it is expected to gradually weaken starting Monday night and tomorrow, Tuesday,” the SMN said.

So far in 2022 they have formed about Mexico nine cyclones: Ivette, Howard, Frank, Estelle, Darby, Celia, Blas, Bonnie and Agatha, which was the first cyclone of the season this year.

so far only Agathawhich reached a category 2 hurricane off the coast of the state of Oaxaca, has been the only one to cause damage on land in one of the poorest areas in the south of the country, leaving nine dead and several missing.

In the middle of last May the authorities The Mexican authorities reported that they foresee the formation of up to 40 named cyclones by 2022, from 14 to 19 in the Pacific, which they described as an “active season”, and they predicted that of the total number of tropical cyclones generated, both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific, at least five impact the country.

With information from EFE

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