EFE.- Tropical Storm Nicholas formed this Sunday in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and is heading northwest with maximum winds of 65 km / h, reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.
At 15:00 GMT, the center of this system – which this Monday could make landfall at some point between the Texas-Mexico border – was located about 205 km northeast of Veracruz (and 650 km south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Big.
The Government of Mexico issued a tropical storm warning from Barra el Mezquital north to the US-Mexico border.
The National Water Commission (Conagua) explained that although it is expected that the storm will not touch Mexican lands, special vigilance is being kept on rivers and dams due to possible floods that the cyclone would cause, coupled with a low pressure area in the southeast, in Tamaulipas , Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco and Campeche.
Similarly, there is a storm surge watch on the Texas coast, which runs from the mouth of the Rio Grande to High Island.
A tropical storm watch is activated for the Texas coast, from north of Port Aransas to High Island.
Nicholas is moving northwest with a speed of about 20 km / h and this general movement is expected to continue tonight, the Miami-based observatory said.
According to the track cone marked by the NHC, the center of the storm will pass near the coasts of northeast Mexico and south Texas on Monday night, and will approach the south or central coast of Texas on Tuesday “early ”.
A gradual strengthening is forecast as Nicholas approaches the northwest coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical-storm-force winds extend from the center and outward up to 165 kilometers, the NHC bulletin detailed.
On the other hand, at the moment a tropical wave is observed located near Cape Verde with low probabilities of formation as a storm in the next 48 hours.
Also with a low development forecast is a “non-tropical low pressure zone” in the far northeast Atlantic, a few hundred miles east-northeast of the Azores islands.
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The observatory simultaneously monitors another tropical wave that will “move” off the west coast of Africa “in a couple of days” and an area of low pressure north of the southeast or central Bahamas, both with low probability of formation. within 48 hours, but they could be organized and developed within five days.
So far this year there have been five hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, Elsa, Grace, Henri, Ida and Larry, of which Grace, Ida and Larry reached the highest category, 3 or more.
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