Hurricane Roslyn hits Mexico's Pacific coast with severe winds, heavy rainfall
By Staff Reuters
Posted October 23, 2022 10:32 am
Roslyn, a powerful Category 3 hurricane, made landfall in Mexico’s Nayarit state on the Pacific coast Sunday morning, dumping a life-threatening storm surge with damaging winds in its path, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Rosyln, which was downgraded from Category 4 since Saturday, hit land at 5:20 a.m. local time near Santa Cruz in northern Nayarit, the NHC said, a coastal state home to popular tourist beaches like Sayulita and Punta Mita.
It was packing maximum sustained winds near 195 kilometres per hour, though rapid weakening was expected as it moved farther inland over west-central Mexico throughout the day, the NHC said.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the coast from Playa Perula to Escuinapa and Las Islas Marias. Up to eight to 10 inches of rainfall was expected in Jalisco, the upper coast of Colima, western Nayarit and southeastern Sinaloa.
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2 minute readOctober 23, 20226:21 PM CDTLast Updated 2 hours ago
Two dead in Mexico after Storm Roslyn dumps heavy rains, flooding
By Cassandra Garrison
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A man cleans debris following the passing of Hurricane Roslyn that hit Mexico's Pacific coast with heavy winds and rain in San Blas in Nayarit state, Mexico, October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Hugo Cervantes
MEXICO CITY, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Two people died on Sunday from destruction caused by Tropical Storm Roslyn after it made landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast as a powerful hurricane before weakening farther inland, authorities said.
A 74-year-old man was killed in the town of Mexcaltitan de Santiago Ixcuintla when a beam fell on his head, Nayarit state's Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection told Reuters. A 39-year-old woman died when a fence collapsed in the state's Rosamorada district.
According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), Roslyn hit land as a Category 3 hurricane at 5:20 a.m. local time (1120 GMT) near Santa Cruz in northern Nayarit, a Pacific coastal state home to popular tourist beaches like Sayulita and Punta Mita.
By the afternoon, Roslyn was downgraded to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds decreasing to near 45 miles per hour (75 km per hour), the NHC said.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/hurricane-roslyn-batters-mexicos-pacific-coast-with-damaging-winds-major-2022-10-23/