Flossie expected to become a hurricane as Barry drenches Gulf states

While Tropical Depression Barry continues to dump dense rains connected Mexico’s bluish Gulf states, connected the Pacific side, Tropical Storm Flossie is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane and skirt the westbound seashore implicit the adjacent fewer days.

At 9 a.m. connected Monday, Flossie was centered astir 160 miles (255 kilometers) southbound of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, and was moving northwest astatine 10 mph (16 kph). It is not forecast to marque landfall successful Mexico but volition origin important rainfall successful Michoacán and Colima. 

Seguimos muy pendientes del desarrollo de la tormenta tropical #Flossie 🌀🌧️ De acuerdo con el último informe de la @conagua_mx, el centro de este sistema se encuentra a 280 km al sur de Zihuatanejo y continúa desplazándose hacia el noroeste, provocando lluvias torrenciales en… pic.twitter.com/GWjzFNqAMg

— Evelyn Salgado Pineda (@EvelynSalgadoP) June 30, 2025

Mexico’s National Meteorological Service issued a Tropical Storm Warning for Mexico’s westbound seashore from Punta San Telmo, Michoacán, to Playa Perula, Jalisco, conscionable northbound of Manzanillo, Colima, the country’s biggest Pacific seashore port.

A Tropical Storm Watch is successful effect from Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, northeast of Punta San Telmo and from Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, southbound to Playa Perula.

The states of Jalisco, Nayarit, Guerrero and Oaxaca tin besides expect aggravated rains.

Tropical Storm Barry made landfall conscionable southbound of Tampico, Tamaulipas, aboriginal Monday arsenic a but rapidly dissipated. 

The remnants of the tempest are expected to nutrient rainfall totals of 8 to 13 cm crossed portions of the states of San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas done today, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported. With imaginable isolated maximum totals of 20 inches, this rainfall whitethorn nutrient life-threatening flooding and mudslides, the NHC said, particularly successful areas of steep terrain.

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🌀 #Barry se disipó a las 03:00 horas de hoy a unos 160 km al noroeste de #Tampico. Sin embargo, se espera que, en las próximas 24h sus remanentes continúen ocasionando lluvias fuertes en #Tamaulipas, #SanLuisPotosí y el norte y montañas de #Veracruz. pic.twitter.com/JtSPCaWKSD

— Meteorología SPCVer (@spcver_met) June 30, 2025

Barry formed connected Sunday and was the 2nd named tempest of the Atlantic hurricane season, which started connected June 1 and runs done Nov. 30. 

Andrea, the first named tropical tempest of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated connected June 24 conscionable hours aft forming successful the mediate of the Atlantic Ocean earlier that morning, the NHC said.

Forecasters expect 2025 to beryllium an above-average season successful the Atlantic, with 13 to 19 named storms. Last year, determination were 18 named storms, 11 of which became hurricanes and 5 of those became “major” hurricanes (Category 3, 4 oregon 5 connected the Saffir–Simpson scale).

The Eastern Pacific hurricane play began connected May 15 and has featured 5 tropical storms already, including Erick, which deed Mexico’s West Coast arsenic a Category 3 hurricane.

With reports from The Associated Press, N+, El Economista, The New York Times and El Universal