October 23, 2022, 10:43 AM
October 23, 2022, 10:43 AM
Hurricane Roslyn made landfall this Sunday (10.23.2022) with category 3 in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the Pacific coast, reported the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC). The cyclone entered “near Santa Cruz, Nayarit, around 11:20 GMT. Its maximum sustained winds are 195 km / h,” the NHC detailed in a bulletin.
The eye of the hurricane was located 90 km from Tepic, the capital of Nayarit, and was moving at 26 km/h in a north-northwest direction. Although it featured those maximum sustained winds of near 120 miles, rapid weakening was expected as it moved inland over west-central Mexico later in the day, the NHC said.
Santa Cruz is a small town located in the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla and has about 1,200 inhabitants who are mainly dedicated to fishing and agriculture. “Due to the passage of Hurricane Roslyn, this area must be evacuated, it is high risk,” announced vehicles with loudspeakers that toured small communities in Nayarit on Saturday afternoon.
The Mexican Meteorological Service warned that Roslyn causes strong winds, intense rainfall, electric shocks and waves of up to six meters on the coasts of Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima (west), all in the Pacific. In the resort of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, with some 220,000 inhabitants and one of the largest towns in the area affected by the hurricane, the winds and rough seas began to make themselves felt two hours earlier.
Roslyn formed as a hurricane on Friday and quickly evolved to reach category 4, out of a total of 5, on the Saffir-Simpson scale in a few hours, putting authorities and residents on alert. It is the most powerful phenomenon in the Pacific season. Hundreds of people left their homes on the coast to move to shelters or relatives’ houses, while commercial activities were suspended at the end of Saturday afternoon in the coastal area of Nayarit and Jalisco.
