Hurricane John ravaged Mexico’s Guerrero State earlier this week before weakening into a tropical storm, but it is once again threatening the country’s Pacific Coast, which has been drenched by the storm’s rains and battered by its winds in recent days and can expect to receive even more, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
Late Thursday evening, John was about 20 miles off the country’s southwest coastline and was downgraded to a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was unlikely to regain its strength, the agency said, and was expected to continue moving along the coast or just inland, dumping an additional 10 to 20 inches of rain on parts of the country through Friday. Forecasters warned it could cause “catastrophic life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides” in Guerrero and nearby Michoacán State.
Wind gusts of up to 70 m.p.h. swept through the area on Thursday night, but were expected to weaken.
The agency issued a tropical storm warning from Punta Maldonado to Manzanillo, and changed the hurricane warning from Zihuatanejo to Punta San Telmo to a Tropical Storm Warning. John is expected to bring tropical storm conditions across portions of the warning area through Friday, the center said.
Mexico’s meteorological service also said landslides, flooding and overflowing rivers were expected in Michoacán and Colima as John approached, and that at least nine other states would also be hit with heavy rains.
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