Tropical cyclones Wanda and Sandra formed this Sunday in the Pacific Ocean although they do not represent a danger for the Mexican territory, reported the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
“‘Wanda’ now as a Post Tropical Cyclone. Its center is located to the west-northwest of the Azores Islands. It does not represent a danger for Mexican territory,” the Service reported in a notice.
Wanda is located 610 kilometers from the Azores Islands and 5,425 km northeast of the coasts of the southeastern state of Quintana Roo and has maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour and gusts of 85 kilometers per hour.
This cyclone is moving northwest at a speed of 41 kilometers per hour and the SME recommended “extreme precautions to the general population in the areas of the states mentioned due to rain, wind, and waves (including maritime navigation) and to comply with the recommendations issued by the authorities of the National Civil Protection System, in each entity “.
On the other hand, in another notice, they announced, “Tropical Storm ‘Sandra’ has formed from Tropical Depression ‘Nineteen-E’. Its center is located south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, BCS It does not represent a danger to Mexican territory “.
Sandra is located 1,135 kilometers from Cabo San Lucas (in the northern state of Baja California Sur) and has maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour and gusts of 85 kilometers per hour.
This cyclone is moving west-northwest at a speed of 17 kilometers per hour and the EMS recommended “extreme precautions to the general population in the areas of the states mentioned due to rain, wind, and waves (including maritime navigation) and to attend to the recommendations issued by the authorities of the National Civil Protection System, in each entity “.
This year in the Pacific Ocean the cyclones Andrés, Blanca, Carlos, Dolores, Enrique, Felicia, Guillermo, Hilda, Ignacio, Jimena, Kevin, Linda, Marty, Nora, Olaf, Pamela and Rick have formed.
Dolores made landfall in mid-June, killing three from electrical storms.
In the Atlantic, where a score of named cyclones have already been registered, the most devastating has been Grace, which left a total of 11 dead in August, eight in the state of Veracruz and three in Puebla.
While Nora, who made landfall on August 28, caused the death of a minor in the state of Jalisco and seven disappeared, six of them fishermen from the state of Guerrero.
On October 13, Cyclone Pamela was impacted as a category 1 hurricane in the state of Sinaloa, in the Mexican Pacific, where after its passage it left 2,000 affected families, in addition to 9,000 victims in the neighboring state of Nayarit and material damage, especially in the power grid.
