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The Tropical Cyclone Willa takes place on Tuesday morning, local time – Swedish afternoon – a few dozen kilometers from the Mexican west coast and constitutes a category 4 hurricane, the second most powerful on the Orkan scale.
Willa is waited local tonight reach lands near a place called Escuinapa, located a few kilometers south of the beautiful port of Puerto de Mazatlan, which has 400,000 inhabitants.
At this point, the storm should be lost and could be a category 2 or possibly category 3 hurricane. However, this still means winds of 45 meters per second or immediately above.
Potentially dangerous storm surges are expected to dissipate over large areas of Mexico's coastal region, to the west and southwest. Rainfall between 200 and 300 millimeters over a short period can also cause severe landslides and floods.
Authorities announced emergency situations In 19 municipalities of the coastal states of Sinaloa and Nayarit, writes El Universal magazine.
Already on Monday, schools were closed in Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco.
No ship can leave the port of Mazatlán until the storm is overrated.
The authorities have prepared emergency temporary housing. It is estimated that 20,000 to 25,000 people have been evacuated from Escuinapa, Acaponeta and Tecuala.
The National Energy Agency has also activated an emergency plan: more than 2,000 additional electricians, 800 vehicles, 400 cranes, 143 emergency power stations and 2 helicopters are ready to be recovered and de-energized.
Willa, after all, judges Mexico three days after passing the most intense hurricane through the state of Jalisco. Patricia, the name of the hurricane, was before reaching the earth (a little weakened) the most powerful tropical cyclone ever observed in the world.
At the same time, the tropical storm continues Vicente will move along the Pacific coast further south, with less severe winds but heavy rains.
Five days of intense rainfall from landslides and sapped homes have left 12 dead in the state of Oaxaca.
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