Popular resorts can cover tropical storm

Photo: The Weather Channel / twitter

Strengthening the tropical storm system in the Caribbean could cover the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, intensify the hurricane and cause an additional blow to the east coast of the country this week, writes USA Today.

The National Hurricane Center said at the end of Sunday that a tropical storm, Franklin, was forming over the northwestern coast of the Caribbean Sea.

Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Cozumel are in the risk zone.

The storm should not have a direct impact on the United States, although this week part of the Gulf Coast in Texas may face high waves and a strong and dangerous surface current.

Tropical storm warnings were issued Sunday for much of the coast of the Mexican Peninsula in Mexico, and a tropical storm watch was issued for parts of Belize.

The storm "will be accompanied by piercing rain squalls across Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula," it said. AccuWeatherwarning of power outages.

The storm is supposed to move through Yucatan to Campeche Bay, where it can reach the force of a hurricane before striking the east coast of Mexico on Wednesday evening or Thursday.

One forecast indicates that a hurricane could be a 3 category storm with a wind of at least 178 km / h, approaching the east coast of Mexico.

HWRF 18z Aggressively Develops Invest 90L into major hurricane now in Bay of Campeche. System travels over Yucatan then rapidly intensifies pic.twitter.com/tuXyZTJCq2

- Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) August 6

According to AccuWeather, areas from Veracruz to nearby Tampico may be affected by floods, destructive winds and storm waves.

The tropical storm will be called Franklin when the wind reaches 62 km per hour. It will become a hurricane when the wind speed is 119 km per hour.

A separate tropical system, which now rotates in the central part of the Atlantic Ocean more than 1609 km from the Caribbean, has an 50% chance of turning into a storm over the next five days, according to information from the Hurricane Center.

This week, the system may bring rain and wind to the islands of the eastern Caribbean, but it is too early to predict its further behavior. Weather channel.

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