Flooding, Landslides Possible on Mexico Pacific Coast Jonathan Belles - Weather.com
go to original May 31, 2017

Update: Three dead in Mexico as tropical storm Beatriz moves inland (NTDTV)

A tropical disturbance located south of Mexico could develop into this season's next tropical depression by late in the week, but this particular system doesn't pose a threat to the United States.

The area of storminess, deemed Invest 91E by the National Hurricane Center, has a high chance to develop into a tropical depression by Thursday. Heavy rainfall in southern Mexico will likely be the biggest threat.

Invest 91E contains a gradually tightening low-level swirl of winds and towering thunderstorms beneath light wind shear, which is favorable for the growth of a tropical system.

Water temperatures are also favorable for the birth of a tropical depression, with temperatures climbing into the mid-80s.

The disturbance is forecast to slowly shuffle northward toward the Mexican coast over the next few days, but computer models currently disagree about when, or even if, this system will reach the coast.

It will bring a heavy – potentially life-threatening – rainfall and mudslide threat to southern Mexico through the weekend. Some communities in Mexico's state of Oaxaca and surrounding states could see more than a foot of rainfall.



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