The boat had left Ensenada last Friday for Mazatlán with five people aboard but was presumably wrecked, passing Los Cabos at the same time as Hurricane Newton, said the office of the state’s Ports Captain. MODIS provided an image of the storm at 2:25 p.m. EDT (18:25 UTC) that showed the cloud-filled center of circulation over the Baja, and the eastern quadrant of the storm extending over the mainland of western Mexico.
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Tropical storm warnings are in effect as the hurricane is expected to make its second landfall along the north-western coast of Mexico.
Some parts of Arizona could receive between three and four inches of rain, which is the equivalent of receiving between one-fourth and one-third of the annual rainfall in a single day! Hurricane Newton shattered windows, downed trees and knocked out.
“We had a tropical storm in a greatly weakened state move into Arizona in 1997”, said Jim Meyer, senior meteorologist in Tucson.
Downgraded from a hurricane, the storm was still packing 110 kilometre-an-hour winds when it swept into mainland Mexico near Bahia Kino in the state of Sonora, the US National hurricane centre said. “But it’s not unheard of for southern Arizona to have gotten hit by tropical storms before”. The storm came ashore near Mexico’s Los Cabos resorts Tuesday morning as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 90 miles per hour (150 kph).
The MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible image of Hurricane Newton after its center had made landfall in the southern part of Baja California, Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted Newton could leave the peninsula and enter the gulf during the night.
A shrimp boat capsized in rough seas in the Gulf of California, killing two people and leaving three others missing, authorities said. Flash flooding and mudslides are likely.
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Palm trees were toppled along the town’s coastal boulevard and some windows were broken.
