Flossie was a tropical storm within the North Pacific Ocean Monday morning Mexico Central Time, the Nationwide Hurricane Middle stated in its newest advisory.
The tropical storm had sustained wind speeds of fifty miles per hour.
All instances on the map are Mexico Central Time. By The New York Occasions
The outer bands of Flossie have been anticipated to convey regionally heavy rainfall to the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco by means of midweek. Rainfall totals between three and 6 inches have been anticipated, with remoted totals of 10 inches.
The Hurricane Middle warned that the rain might result in life-threatening flooding and mudslides, notably in areas of steep terrain.
A tropical storm warning was issued for parts of southwestern Mexico, the place tropical storm circumstances have been anticipated late on Monday by means of Tuesday.
What does the storm appear to be from above?
Satellite tv for pc imagery may help decide the power, dimension and cohesion of a storm. The stronger a storm turns into, the extra doubtless an eye fixed will kind within the heart. When the attention appears to be like symmetrical, that always means the storm is just not encountering something to weaken it.
Flossie is the sixth named storm to kind within the Jap Pacific in 2025.
Storms that kind within the Atlantic or the Pacific typically transfer west, which means Atlantic storms pose a larger risk to North America. If a storm kinds within the Pacific near land, it might probably convey damaging winds and rain earlier than pushing out to sea.
Nevertheless, an air mass can generally block a storm, driving it north or northeast towards the Baja California peninsula and the west coast of Mexico. Sometimes, a storm can transfer farther north, as Hurricane Hilary did in 2023, bringing damaging winds and intense rain to Southern California.
Hurricane season within the Jap Pacific started on Could 15, two weeks earlier than the Atlantic season. Each seasons run by means of Nov. 30.
Sources and notes
Monitoring map Monitoring knowledge is from the Nationwide Hurricane Middle. The map reveals possibilities of at the least 5 p.c. The forecast is for as much as 5 days, with that point span beginning as much as three hours earlier than the reported time that the storm reaches its newest location. Wind velocity chance knowledge is just not accessible north of 60.25 levels north latitude.
Wind arrivals desk Arrival instances are generated from a New York Occasions evaluation of Nationwide Hurricane Middle knowledge. Geographic places use knowledge from the U.S. Census Bureau and Pure Earth. Time zones are based mostly on Google. The desk reveals predicted arrival instances of sustained, damaging winds of 58 m.p.h. or extra for choose cities with an opportunity of such winds reaching them. If damaging winds attain a location, there is no such thing as a greater than a ten p.c likelihood that they are going to arrive earlier than the “earliest affordable” time and a 50 p.c likelihood they are going to arrive earlier than the “most certainly” time.
Radar map Radar imagery is from the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through Iowa State College. These mosaics are generated by combining particular person radar stations that comprise the NEXRAD community.
Storm surge map Storm surge knowledge is from the Nationwide Hurricane Middle. Forecasts solely embody the USA Gulf and Atlantic coasts, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The precise areas that might grow to be flooded might differ from the areas proven on this map. This map accounts for tides, however not waves and never flooding brought on by rainfall. The map additionally consists of intertidal areas, which routinely flood throughout typical excessive tides.
Satellite tv for pc map Imagery is from the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Japanese Meteorological Company through the Cooperative Institute for Analysis within the Environment.
Precipitation map Information for multi-day forecasts or noticed rainfall totals are from the Nationwide Climate Service. The 1-day forecast is from the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
