Hurricane Narda brings heavy rains and high waves to Guerrero, Michoacán and Colima

Hurricane Narda volition bring dense rains chiefly to the occidental states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Colima, wherever authorities person issued alerts owed to the storm’s imaginable severity.

While the hurricane is expected to determination parallel to the seashore without making landfall, it volition bring aggravated rainfall and beardown winds to Mexico’s cardinal Pacific region. Narda is presently a Category 1 hurricane and is expected to proceed connected a westward way distant from mainland Mexico.

According to the National Meteorological Service (SMN), astatine 9 a.m. connected Tuesday, Hurricane Narda was located 475 kilometers southwest of Manzanillo, Colima, and 480 km south-southwest of Playa Pérula, Jalisco, with maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour, gusts of 170 kilometers per hour, and moving westbound astatine 20 kilometers per hour.

The states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Colima, which beryllium on the Pacific coast, volition apt acquisition precise dense to aggravated rainfall with expected accumulations ranging betwixt 75 and 150 millimeters wrong 24 hours. 

Strong winds and precocious waves successful coastal areas are besides anticipated, which volition heighten the hazard of landslides, flooding successful low-lying areas and rising levels successful rivers and streams. 

In summation to these states, forecasters person warned that Jalisco volition besides acquisition aggravated rainfall arsenic good arsenic upwind gusts of 40 to 60 kilometers per hour. Waves successful coastal areas could scope betwixt 2.5 and 3.5 meters successful height. 

Although with little intensity, Narda volition besides bring rainfall to the states of Nayarit, México authorities and Mexico City. 

Authorities person urged residents successful the affected areas to heed information recommendations owed to the imaginable for harm caused by the dense rains. 

Narda is the 14th cyclone of the play to signifier successful the Pacific Ocean. The play typically ends by Nov. 30.  

With reports from El Financiero and TV Azteca