The Hurricane Agatha aftermath has left at least 11 dead and more than 30 missing
Hurricane Agatha made landfall in Oaxaca, Mexico with winds over 100 mph
It is the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast in May since record-keeping began in 1949
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It slammed a stretch of small beach towns and fishing villages with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph and moved inland to Oaxaca’s mountain regions, where it lost much of its strength.
Agatha brought torrential rainfall that caused rivers to overflow and mountainsides to rapidly erode.
More than 40,000 people in the state were impacted by the storm, Murat said. Many have lost power or saw their homes destroyed.
Most of the 11 victims were either buried in landslides or drowned in flash floods they were swept away with.
As first responders continued to search for the missing and began recovery efforts, Mexican officials were watching another potential tropical storm threat.
Forecasters said a large area of thunderstorms along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula has a 70% chance of developing into a tropical depression Read more from NYPost
Potential Florida impact
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A tropical depression is likely to develop in the Gulf of Mexico in the next day or so and soak parts of Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas into the weekend.
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A sprawled-out area of low pressure has developed near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the northwest Caribbean Sea. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has deemed this system Invest 91L, which is a naming convention that’s used by meteorologists to identify areas of disturbed weather that have some potential to form into a tropical depression or tropical storm.
Within this, a tropical depression is likely to form in the southern Gulf of Mexico Thursday or Friday. If it eventually becomes a storm, it would be named Alex, the first name in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season name list.
The NHC has scheduled the first hurricane hunter mission into the system for early Thursday afternoon.
Tropical storm warnings could be issued for a part of southern Florida and western Cuba as soon as later today. That could happen regardless of whether the system has been deemed a tropical depression or tropical storm by that point in time. Read more from Weather
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