Flossie was a tropical storm within the North Pacific Ocean Monday morning Mexico Central Time, the Nationwide Hurricane Heart mentioned in its newest advisory.
The tropical storm had sustained wind speeds of 60 miles per hour.
All occasions on the map are Mexico Central Time. By The New York Instances
The outer bands of Flossie have been anticipated to carry domestically heavy rainfall to the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco by midweek. Rainfall totals between three and 6 inches have been anticipated, with remoted totals of 10 inches.
The Hurricane Heart warned that the rain could result in life-threatening flooding and mudslides, significantly in areas of steep terrain.
A tropical storm warning was issued for parts of southwestern Mexico, the place tropical storm situations have been anticipated late on Monday by Tuesday.
What does the storm seem like from above?
Satellite tv for pc imagery can assist decide the power, measurement and cohesion of a storm. The stronger a storm turns into, the extra doubtless an eye fixed will type within the middle. When the attention seems to be symmetrical, that usually means the storm just isn’t encountering something to weaken it.
Flossie is the sixth named storm to type within the Japanese Pacific in 2025.
Storms that type within the Atlantic or the Pacific usually transfer west, that means Atlantic storms pose a larger risk to North America. If a storm varieties within the Pacific near land, it could possibly carry damaging winds and rain earlier than pushing out to sea.
Nevertheless, an air mass can typically 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 Japanese Pacific started on Could 15, two weeks earlier than the Atlantic season. Each seasons run by Nov. 30.
Sources and notes
Monitoring map Monitoring knowledge is from the Nationwide Hurricane Heart. The map reveals possibilities of a minimum of 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 likelihood knowledge just isn’t obtainable north of 60.25 levels north latitude.
Wind arrivals desk Arrival occasions are generated from a New York Instances evaluation of Nationwide Hurricane Heart knowledge. Geographic areas use knowledge from the U.S. Census Bureau and Pure Earth. Time zones are primarily based on Google. The desk reveals predicted arrival occasions 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 isn’t any greater than a ten p.c likelihood that they’ll arrive earlier than the “earliest affordable” time and a 50 p.c likelihood they’ll arrive earlier than the “probably” 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 Heart. Forecasts solely embrace america Gulf and Atlantic coasts, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The precise areas that would turn out to be flooded could differ from the areas proven on this map. This map accounts for tides, however not waves and never flooding attributable to rainfall. The map additionally contains 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.
