Hurricane Adrian Becomes Category 4

MEXICO

Hurricane Adrian, the first of the season in the Mexican Pacific Basin, held in the last hours of Category 4 of the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale and not dangerous for the country because of its remoteness, the Service reported today National Weather (NWS).

At 4.00 local time (9.00 GMT) the storm remained 505 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo port in Colima state, accompanied by winds of 220 kph and gusts of up to 270 kilometers, said the agency, dependent National Water Commission (Conagua).

The first hurricane of the season in the Pacific was moving west-northwest at 15 kilometers per hour winds in a radius of 150 kilometers are typical of a tropical storm.

They generate waves up to four meters in height and cloud banks have led to the shores of the Mexican states of Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero, where there could be rain, said the SMN.

The National Civil Protection System (Sinaproc) has maintained alert yesterday in green (low risk), these three states of the Mexican Pacific coast, and in level "blue" (minimum risk) to Nayarit and Oaxaca.

In the next few hours waiting for a slight decrease in wind speeds up to 215 kilometers per hour, and that the storm will continue moving away from the coasts of the country, said the SMN.

The forecast for this hurricane season in Mexico, which runs from June to November, is that 17 tropical cyclones form each of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, of which about 14 would impact the country as depression, tropical storm or hurricane.