Grace weakens to a tropical storm but is expected to hit Mexico again as a hurricane

Published:Dec 7, 202309:43
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That second landfall is forecast Friday night or Saturday morning alongside the Mexican coast west of the Yucatan Peninsula. The storm will keep properly south of Texas, so little if any impacts are expected to the US mainland.

A brand new hurricane warning has been issued alongside the Mexican mainland coast from Puerto Veracruz to Cabo Rojo. Late Thursday afternoon, the storm was 50 miles northeast of Campeche, with winds of fifty mph.

The jap coast of the Yucatán, together with Cancun, Cozumel and Punta Herrero, has been below a hurricane warning since Tuesday due to Grace changing into higher organized as it moved west, battering Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

Meanwhile, heavy rain is expected by Friday over north-central parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and can probably lead to areas of flash and concrete flooding.

And in central to northern Veracruz, northern Puebla and into Hidalgo, 6 to 12 inches of rain -- with a most of 18 inches -- is expected from Friday by Sunday. It could lead to flash and concrete flooding, and will additionally produce mudslides.

A harmful storm surge will elevate water ranges by as a lot as 3 to 5 toes above regular tide ranges alongside the coast of mainland Mexico across the space the place the middle will make landfall by early Saturday. And massive and harmful waves are expected together with the surge.

Hotels and companies brace for the storm

At least 125 vacationers had been evacuated from resorts and brought to shelters forward of Grace's landfall, Quintana Roo state Gov. Carlos Joaquín González mentioned late Wednesday.

"In Tulum, hotels have been evacuated, and the tourists taken to different hotel shelters," González mentioned on Twitter.

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Work-related actions in Quintana Roo have been suspended and native leaders requested companies to shut down quickly and for folks to be of their houses or in shelters in a single day.

"Crossings from Cancún to Isla Mujeres were suspended; all ports are already closed to navigation. Waves of up to 4 meters high are expected," González mentioned.

The native authorities issued a pink alert representing the "highest risk" for eight municipalities, together with: Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Tulum, Solidaridad, Puerto Morelos, Benito Juárez, Lázaro Cárdenas, Isla Mujeres and Cozumel.

CNN's Karol Suarez, Madeline Holcombe and Judson Jones contributed to this report.

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