Baja Prepares for Yet Another Tropical System as Simon Lumbers Northward Everton Fox - Al Jazeera
go to original October 6, 2014

The Eastern Pacific storm season rumbles on bringing the threat of further floods and mudslides to Baja California.

The storm-battered coast of western Mexico is braced for the arrival of another tropical system in what has been one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record. Tropical Storm Simon is weakening, but is still likely to dump flooding rains across the Baja California peninsula.

Hurricane Simon weakened into a tropical storm on Monday having once been a powerful Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

The storm is expected to reach the north of the peninsular around the end of the week. By that stage it is expected to have been downgraded into a tropical depression.

Although the winds should not be a problem, heavy rain is likely to cause life threatening floods and mudslides across the northwest of Mexico. Rainfall totals in excess of 200mm are possible as the storm passes through.

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East Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook - This product is updated at approximately 5 AM, 11 AM, 5 PM, and 11 PM PDT from May 15 to November 30. (NOAA/National Hurricane Center)

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