MEXICO CITY, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicts that Tropical Storm Norma will likely strengthen on Wednesday 18 as it moves towards the famous tourist area of Los Cabos in Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula.
According to NHC, on Tuesday, the storm’s center was located about 1,110km south of the Cabo San Lucas beach resort on the southern tip of Baja California. Storm Norma’s maximum sustained wind speed is estimated at about 64km/h.
NHC predicts that it is likely that Storm Norma will increase in level and become a strong level 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, whereby the maximum sustained wind speed can reach at least 119km/h.
The storm is forecast to enter the southern Baja California peninsula around noon on Oct 22.
The annual tropical storm season in Mexico begins on May 15 in the Pacific and from June 1 in the Atlantic, then usually ends on Nov 30.
Last week, storm Lidia with a maximum wind speed of about 220 km/h made landfall on the southern coast of the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast. This “extremely dangerous” storm caused flooding, disrupted traffic and killed at least two people.
Scientists believe that storms are occurring with increasing intensity as global temperatures increase due to the impact of climate change. — NNN-AGENCIES
