Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), Oct. 11 (LaPresse) – Hurricane Simon is just off Mexico’s Pacific coast and is expected to make landfall as an extremely powerful storm. The hurricane has reached winds of 155 miles per hour (approximately 250 km/h), just below the threshold required to be classified as a Category 5 hurricane, the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It is located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) west-southwest of Manzanillo and is moving north-northwest at a speed of 6 miles per hour (9 km/h). The hurricane could bring between 25 and 50 centimeters of rain to some areas of southwestern Mexico, while rainfall could reach 76 centimeters in parts of the states of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco.
Mexico, Hurricane Simon approaching: wind speeds reach 250 km/h
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Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), Oct. 11 (LaPresse) – Hurricane Simon is just off Mexico’s Pacific coast and is expected to make landfall as an extremely powerful storm. The hurricane has reached winds of 155 miles per hour (approximately 250 km/h), just below the threshold required to be classified as a Category 5 hurricane, the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale. It is located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) west-southwest of Manzanillo and is moving north-northwest at a speed of 6 miles per hour (9 km/h). The hurricane could bring between 25 and 50 centimeters of rain to some areas of southwestern Mexico, while rainfall could reach 76 centimeters in parts of the states of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco.
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