Tropical Storm Flossie continues to intensify near the coasts of the Mexican Pacific

Mexico City, June 30 (EFE).- Tropical storm Flossie, formed in the Pacific Ocean, continues to intensify and is expected to evolve into a category 1 hurricane during the day, which is why it will maintain torrential rains on the coast of Guerrero and intense rains in Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán and Oaxaca, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported this Monday.

In its most recent notice, the agency dependent on the National Water Commission (Conagua) warned that, as of 09:15 local time (15:15 GMT), the phenomenon was located 255 kilometers (km) south-southwest of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, and 420 km south-southeast of Manzanillo, Colima.

Flossie also presented sustained maximum winds of 95 kilometers per hour (km/h), gusts of 110 km/h and movement towards the northwest at 17 km/h.

“It is forecast to intensify to a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale during this Monday,” warned the agency.

The tropical storm will cause punctual to torrential rains, from 150 to 250 millimeters on the coast of Guerrero, and intense, from 75 to 150 millimeters in western and southern Jalisco, Colima, on the coast and south of Michoacán and in the north and southwest of Oaxaca.

In addition to sustained winds of 60 to 80 km/h, with gusts of 90 to 100 km/h and waves of 5 to 6 meters high on the coasts of Guerrero, Michoacán and Colima.

There will also be sustained winds of 30 to 40 km/h with gusts of 50 to 70 km/h and waves of 2.5 to 3.5 meters high on the coasts of Oaxaca, conditions that will extend during the afternoon to Jalisco.

Given this, the tropical storm effects prevention zone is maintained from Punta San Telmo, Michoacán, to Playa Pérula, Jalisco, as well as a tropical storm effects watch zone from Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, to the east of Punta San Telmo, and from the north of Playa Pérula to Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, the SMN specified.

The agency warned that the rainfall could generate landslides, an increase in river and stream levels, as well as overflows and floods in low-lying areas of the mentioned states, so it urged the population to heed its warnings and follow the recommendations of Civil Protection.

Meteorological authorities predict up to 20 named cyclones in the Mexican Pacific; of which between four and six could be category 3, 4 and even 5.

So far, six storms have formed in the Mexican Pacific: Alvin, Bárbara, Cosme, Laila, Erick, and Flossie.