Hurricane Lidia takes intention at Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta resort with strengthening winds

MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Lidia made landfall as an “extraordinarily harmful” Class 4 storm Tuesday night with winds of 140 mph (220 kph) close to Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta.

The U.S. Nationwide Hurricane Middle stated Lidia’s eye appeared to have reached land close to Las Penitas within the western state of Jalisco. The realm is a sparsely populated peninsula. The storm is shifting south of Puerto Vallarta, which might cushion the blow on the resort.

Native authorities canceled lessons in communities across the coast. The anticipated influence comes sooner or later after Tropical Storm Max hit the southern Pacific coast, hundred of miles away, after which dissipated. Rains from Max washed out a part of a coastal freeway within the southern state of Guerrero.

Lidia was centered Tuesday about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south-southwest of Puerto Vallarta, and was shifting east-northeast at about 16 mph (26 kph).

The hurricane heart warned of potential flash flooding and storm surge from the hurricane.

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