Hurricane Roslyn made landfall this Sunday with category 3 in the Mexican state of Nayarit (northwest)on the Pacific coast, reported the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The cyclone came in”near Santa Cruz, Nayarit. Its maximum sustained winds are 195 km/h,” the NHC detailed in a bulletin. The center 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.
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Santa Cruz is a small town nestled in the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla and has about 1,200 inhabitants who are mainly engaged in fishing and agriculture.
The Mexican Meteorological Service warned on its side 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.
first effects
In the resort of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, with about 220,000 inhabitants and in the largest towns in the area affected by the hurricane, the winds and a rough sea began to suffer in the morning hours.
when touching earth, rainfall was intense and some streets of Bucerías, in Nayarit, they became rivers with strong currents coming down from a nearby hill.
Roslyn formed as a hurricane on Friday and unexpectedly in a few hours reached category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, putting authorities and residents on alert. It is the most powerful phenomenon in the Pacific season.
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Hundreds of people left their homes on the coast to move to shelters or relatives’ houseswhile commercial activities were suspended at the end of Saturday afternoon in the coastal area of Nayarit and Jalisco.
“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.
