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Roslyn made landfall early this Sunday in the Mexican state of Nayarit (northwest), on the Pacific coast, as a category 3 hurricane, reported the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC). Its maximum sustained winds are 195 km/h according to the NHC bulletin.
At 09:00 GMT on Sunday, Roslyn slightly lost strength, going from category 4 to 3, according to the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC). Roslyn was located about 130 kilometers southwest of the city of Tepic, with maximum winds of 205 km / h, and moving at about 23 km / h.
Before making landfall, the cyclone made the force of its winds felt, which extend up to 130 km from its center, over Jalisco, mainly in the tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta. The resort’s businesses began to close their businesses on Saturday afternoon after the government recommended that all activity cease. The residents made purchases against the clock and protected their homes. Some tourists were unsuccessfully looking for open bars and restaurants and others were still at the end of the afternoon on the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
In the inhabitants of the port, the memory of Kenna is still fresh, which just in October 2002 arrived as a category 4 leaving four dead and millionaire losses. Roslyn has already unleashed intense rainfall in other Pacific states, such as Colima and Michoacán (west).
Civil Protection of Jalisco has reported that 303 people have been evicted from the community of La Huerta, near where the hurricane will pass. Most went to the homes of relatives and others to anticyclone shelters. Shelters have also been set up in Cabo Corrientes and Puerto Vallarta, while the Nayarit government was getting ready to protect populations in vulnerable areas.
The Meteorological Service of Mexico reported that “a hurricane prevention zone is maintained from Playa Pérula, Jalisco, to El Roblito, in Nayarit.” Each year Mexico suffers the onslaught of tropical cyclones on both its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November. At the end of May, Agatha, the first phenomenon of the season in the Pacific, hit the coast of the state of Oaxaca (south), where the rains in mountainous towns left eleven dead.
On October 3, Orlene made landfall in the state of Sinaloa as category 1, leaving mainly material damage. On September 8, Kay, also a category 1, reached the south of the Baja California peninsula, causing minor damage. In October 1997, Hurricane Paulina hit the southern Mexican Pacific coast as a category 4 hurricane, leaving more than 200 dead.
with AFP
