MEXICOCITY – Tropical storm Julia became a hurricane on Saturday night because it handed the Colombian island San Andres and headed towards the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua with most sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/hr), the U.S. Nationwide Hurricane Middle (NHC) mentioned.
“Life-threatening flash floods and mudslides attainable from heavy rains over Central America and Southern Mexico via early subsequent week,” the NHC mentioned.
The storm is barreling towards Nicaragua “in a rush,” NHC mentioned earlier on Saturday.
The storm was 10 miles (15 kilometers) from San Andres island and about 140 miles (225 kilometers) from the Nicaraguan coast, the place it's anticipated to make landfall in a single day, based on the NHC.
Central American nations initiated emergency alerts forward of Julia’s arrival, only one week after Hurricane Ian pummeled Cuba and Florida.
Colombia President Gustavo Petro mentioned in a speech at a regional summit on Saturday afternoon that he hoped “the injury can be lower than final time,” referring to the destruction within the Caribbean from Hurricane Iota in 2020. He referred to as on resort chains to “open their doorways for shelter.”
After making landfall in Nicaragua, the hurricane is predicted to progressively weaken because it crosses the nation, earlier than shifting north alongside the Pacific coasts of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala on Sunday and Monday, the NHC mentioned. The storm may deliver flash flooding to southern Mexico early subsequent week, NHC mentioned.
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