EFE.- Cyclone Olaf, which hit the Mexican northwest as a category 2 hurricane, dissipated this Saturday after leaving only material damage, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported.
“During the early morning, Olaf weakened to low remaining pressure and will stop affecting the country,” said the National Water Commission (Conagua) body in its latest warning about the weather.
Olaf made landfall on Thursday as a category 2 hurricane in the state of Baja California Sur, leaving rains in that state and other entities in the Mexican Pacific, such as Sinaloa and Nayarit.
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Winds of up to 180 kilometers per hour and torrential rains left more than 190,000 users without electricity and more than 20 shelters were set up to house possible people at risk, which exceeded an estimated half a million.
But the State Council of Civil Protection of Baja California Sur reported a balance without deaths, although there was material damage in La Paz and Los Cabos, the main tourist sites in the state.
Olaf became low pressure remnant this Saturday morning, with a center at 175 kilometers per hour west of Cabo San Lazaro with a displacement to the west of nine kilometers per hour.
“Due to the characteristics of the system and its displacement, this is the latest information”, clarified the SMN.
The agency now monitors three low-pressure zones in the Atlantic Ocean that can generate tropical cyclones within the next few days.
“The closest to Mexico is located 100 kilometers southeast of Frontera, Tabasco, moving west-northwest,” he warned.
So far, cyclones Andrés, Blanca, Carlos, Dolores, Enrique, Felicia, Guillermo, Hilda, Ignacio, Jimena, Kevin, Linda, Marty, Nora and Olaf have formed in the Pacific Ocean.
Dolores made landfall on June 19 and had a special impact on the states of Colima and Michoacán, leaving three dead due to electrical storms.
While in mid-August, the rains from Hurricane Grace, which formed in the Atlantic and made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico, caused the death of at least eleven people, eight in the eastern state of Veracruz and three in the central state of Puebla. , in addition to severe flooding and damage.
Five tropical cyclones are still expected to be generated in the Pacific, while seven are still expected in the Atlantic, according to the coordinator of the SMN, Alejandra Méndez.
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