hurricane paula (threatens Mexico's Yucatan)

hurricane paula (threatens Mexico's Yucatan)
Hi viewers/ candidates/ students here is Latest information related with hurricane paula (threatens Mexico's Yucatan). As per sources hurricane paula (threatens Mexico's Yucatan). Hurricane Paula bore down Tuesday on Mexico's resort-dotted Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba after drenching parts of Central America, threatening a flood-hit region already saturated by torrential rains during an unusually active storm season.
Authorities in Quintana Roo put the Yucatan coastal state on high alert, with the popular Mexican tourist havens of Cancun and Cozumel expecting to be lashed by heavy rains later Tuesday and hurricane-force winds by Wednesday.
Paula, the ninth hurricane of the June-through-November Atlantic season, is then forecast to veer to the northeast and train its sights on Cuba later in the week, the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a bulletin.
At 10:00am (1500 GMT) the category one hurricane was located 245 kilometres (155 miles) southeast of Cozumel, with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometres (75 miles) per hour, according to the NHC.
The hurricane was moving north-northwest at 17 kilometres (10 miles) per hour, and was expected to strengthen slightly over the next day or two.
Paula raised the troubling prospect of renewed flooding in already waterlogged Central America and Mexico, after weeks of devastation from recent heavy rains that sparked deadly mudslides.
The hurricane brought heavy rains to parts of Nicaragua and Honduras, where authorities had placed the nation on red alert before the storm moved away from the coast, and was expected to dump another three to six inches (7.5 to 15 centimetres) of rain in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and Cuba.
"Isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches (25 centimeters) are possible. In areas of mountainous terrain these rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the hurricane center said in a bulletin. Read More