PULSE NEWS MEXICO After strengthening to a major Category 4 storm off the western coast of Mexico late Saturday, Oct. 22, Hurricane Roslyn made landfall early Sunday, Oct. 23, in the coastal state of Nayarit as a Category 3, according to the National Water Commission (Conagua). Roslyn hit the town of Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, with sustained winds of 240 kilometers per
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least 11 people were found dead and 33 more were reported missing in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Tuesday, May 31, as a consequence of Hurricane Agatha, which hit landfall Monday, May 30. According to the Oaxaca Coordination of Civil Protection of Oaxaca (CEPCO), in San Carlos Yautepec, at least one person disappeared after having
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Agatha, the first hurricane of the season, was upgrade to Category 2 late Sunday, May 29, according to Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua). With maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour and gusts of 215 kilometers per hour, Agatha was advancing rapidly toward fishing villages and tourist resorts along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast in the states
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Tropical storm Pamela strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane on Tuesday, Oct. 12, as it moved toward the Mexican Pacific, and could reach a Category 3,forecasters said. The 16th named storm of the 2021 East Pacific hurricane season, Pamela, is expected to make landfall sometime on Wednesday, Oct. 13, as a Category 2 storm
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XINHUA At least eight people are dead and three missing after Hurricane Grace hit eastern Mexico, Cuitlahuac García, governor of the state of Veracruz, reported on Saturday, Aug. 21, Grace, the second Atlantic hurricane of the season, made landfall in the early hours of Saturday with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour, leading to severe flooding in more
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XINHUA Tropical storm Enrique intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday, June 26, off the coast of the western Mexican states of Colima and Michoacán, the National Water Commission (Conagua) reported. “At 07:15 a.m., the center of Enrique was located approximately 230 kilometers southwest of Punta San Telmo, Michoacan, and 265 kilometers south-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima,” Conagua said,
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XINHUA Tropical storm Genevieve has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of up to 210 kilometers an hour on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, as it continues to move along Mexico’s northwest Pacific coast, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) announced. It is expected to hit Manzanillo, Colima, 630 kilometers southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, and will also
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By RICH GRANT The six-foot-two-inch female impersonator in the gold dress curled her finger at me across Duval Street and shouted, “Come on over, honey, the show starts in 15 minutes.” She was wrong. The “show” in Key West started about 180 years ago and it’s still going strong. This somewhat crazy tropical island, capital of the self-proclaimed Conch Republic,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After having been downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 3, Hurricane Willa is set to slam into Mexico’s west coast in the early evening hours of Tuesday, Oct. 23, according to the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (SeGob). But while Willa’s wind intensity — which reached 160 miles per hour late Monday
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