The hurricane orlene It made landfall this Monday morning as category 1 in the south of the state of Sinaloa, on the Mexican Pacific coast.
The National Water Comission (Conagua) said in a statement that at 13:45 GMT Orlene made landfall with maximum winds of 140 km/h at 5 km from the town of Escuinapa, south of Sinaloa.
Orlene formed as a hurricane on Saturday morning and was increasing in strength. Early on Sunday morning it reached category 3 and hours later 4, which classified it as “extremely dangerous”, but on Sunday afternoon it began to lose strength until it reached category 1.
For his part, the National Hurricane Center of the United States (NHC, for its acronym in English), said that Orlene will continue to weaken during the day to become a tropical storm during the afternoon and dissipate tonight or Tuesday morning.
The NHC said the hurricane will cause heavy rains in southern Sinaloa and northern neighboring Nayarit state.
The Sinaloa government said on Twitter that it had set up 45 shelters before the arrival of the hurricane, and in neighboring Nayarit 14 temporary shelters were set up, the director of Civil Protection for that demarcation, Pedro Núñez, told AFP on Sunday.
In the neighboring state of Jalisco, three shelters were set up and first-level classes were suspended in 13 municipalities.
Each year Mexico suffers the onslaught of tropical cyclones on both its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November.
In October 1997, Hurricane Paulina hit the Mexican Pacific coast as a category 4 hurricane, leaving more than 200 dead.
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