After the Hurricane Genevieve strengthened this Tuesday morning to a dangerous category 4 storm, the Secretary of the Navy reported on the closure of ports in the Mexican Pacific.
This storm will cause strong winds in southern Baja California, Mexico, although its center may not reach the mainland.
.@SEMAR_mx reports port closures in the #PacíficoMexicano by the passage of #Genevieve.
#Colima: Manzanillo. #Colima: Manzanillo. #Michoacan: Lazaro Cardenas. #Guerrero: Zihuatanejo and Puerto Marqués. #Oaxaca: Puerto Angel. pic.twitter.com/eXTEVyiDf9 – ProtecciónCivilSeguridad (@CNPC_MX) August 18, 2020
Hurricane Genevieve rose last Monday to category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale in the Pacific with an alert for rain, wind and waves for the western Mexican states, reported at the time, the National Metereological Service (SMN).
He United States National Hurricane Center reported that the storm had maximum sustained winds of 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles) and was moving at 26 km / h (17 mph).
Its vortex was about 630 kilometers (390 miles) south-southeast of the Mexican peninsula of Baja California Sur.
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