translated from Spanish: Hurricane Olaf continues to cause heavy rains after weakening

BCS.- Hurricane Olaf has lost strength in recent hours and was downgraded to category 1 after making landfall in Baja Caifornia Sur, but continues to cause heavy rains in northwestern Mexico.This was announced by the National Meteorological Service (SMN) in its porte of 7:00 am on Friday, where it detailed that Hurricane Olaf is located 55 kilometers west-southwest of La Paz, Baja California Sur.” The center of Hurricane Olaf, a Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is located on the west-southwest coast line of Baja California Sur. Its cloud bands cause rains in Baja California Sur and northwestern Mexico, in addition to strong winds and high waves,” the SMN reported in a bulletin. The hurricane is moving northwest at 17 kilometers per hour, recording sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour with gusts of up to 155 kilometers per hour. Olaf generates “intense rains in Baja California Sur, as well as rains and intervals of showers in Sinaloa and Nayarit,” reported the Meteorological.In addition to wind gusts of 110 to 130 kilometers per hour with waves of 3 to 5 meters on the coasts of Baja California Sur and wind gusts of 50 to 70 kilometers per hour with waves of 1 to 3 meters in the south of the Sea of Cortez and coasts of Sinaloa. For all these reasons, the SMN urged “extreme precautions to the general population in the areas of the states mentioned by rain, wind and waves (including maritime navigation) and to attend to the recommendations issued by the authorities of the National Civil Protection System, in each entity.” On Thursday night, Hurricane Olaf made landfall in category 2 in the state of Baja California Sur, leaving rains in that state and in western Mexico.The Mexican government warned Thursday that there were more than half a million people at risk in the northwest of the country by Cyclone Olaf. The State Council of Civil Protection decided to suspend public sector work activities in Los Cabos and La Paz. The measure could be extended to municipalities where hurricane Olaf was affected, “said the state governor, Carlos Mendoza Davis.While the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported that more than 191,000 users in the region were affected by the passage of the hurricane, but of these 24% have already recovered service. So far, cyclones Andrés, Blanca, Carlos, Dolores, Enrique, Felicia, Guillermo, Hilda, Ignacio, Jimena, Kevin, Linda, Marty, Nora and Olaf have formed in the Pacific Ocean.Dolores made landfall on June 19 and hit especially in the states of Colima and Michoacán and left three dead from thunderstorms. While in mid-August the torrential rains generated by Hurricane Grace, formed in the Atlantic and made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico, caused the death of at least 11 people, eight in the eastern state of Veracruz and three in the central state of Puebla, in addition to severe flooding and damage. The cyclone had impacted days earlier in the Yucatan Peninsula, where it also left floods and electrical failures, although without fatalities. Read more: Last minute! All about “Olaf,” the cyclone threatening the Pacific coastsWhile Nora, which made landfall on August 28, left a minor dead in the state of Jalisco and seven missing, six of them fishermen from the state of Guerrero.  Hurricane Olaf: from apocalyptic clouds to beautiful pink sky in BCS

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