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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical storm Willa has strengthened Saturday in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico and is expected to become a hurricane by Sunday, announced the National Hurricane Center (NHC). in the USA.
The storm was about 451 km southwest of Manzanillo's main harbor and had sustained maximum winds of 60 mph (97 km / h). It is expected to reach Mexico's western shores by Wednesday before accelerating to the northeast, the NHC said.
Another tropical storm, Vicente, formed on Saturday in the Pacific off southern Mexico, turning to the coast, but is expected to strengthen only slightly over the next few days.
Vicente was about 201 km southeast of the port of Salina Cruz, where there is a major refinery owned by the national oil company Pemex, with sustained maximum winds of 80 km / h.
The storm was moving at about 14 km / h (14 km / h) to the west and is expected to head northwesterly early next week to touch the lands near the Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan as soon as Tuesday.
"A slight strengthening is possible today and Sunday," the hurricane center said.
(Report by David Alire Garcia, edited by Bill Trott and Alistair Bell)
