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cleared with heavy machinery so there are no blocked roads,” Zarrabal added.
Soldiers and state police evacuated three communities in Los Tuxtlas, in southern Veracruz state, due to rising rivers and streams. People in two neighborhoods in the town of Alvarado were also temporarily relocated due to high waters.
The state oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, said it had evacuated 61 workers from a drilling platform and had taken other safety precautions, but said oil production had not been affected.
A new tropical depression formed in the Atlantic on Thursday far from land. It was the seventh tropical depression to form in the Atlantic and 카지노 3만 forecasters said it was moving rapidly. By Thursday night, it had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph) and was 1,045 miles (1,680 kilometers) east of the Windward islands.
The Atlantic hurricane season got off to an early start and will likely stay busy, producing a few more storms than originally predicted, U.S. forecasters said Thursday.
Forecasters said warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures and wind patterns that favor storm formation mean chances are higher for an above-normal season. However, that is tempered with the expected development of an El Nino weather pattern over the Pacific that may suppress storms later in the season.
In the Pacific, Gilma weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm and was not seen as a threat to land. Early Thursday afternoon, it was about 695 miles (1,115 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph (110 kph).
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