Hurricane Odile, the strongest storm on record to ever hit Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula smashed Cabo San Lucas late Sunday. Arizona floods are also dreaded after Odile slammed the southwest.
The ritzy Mexican resort, Cabo San Lucas, is a popular resort city to famous A-list Hollywood celebrities like George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston. However, a vicious storm smashed the resort late Sunday with 125 miles per hour winds and six months' rain in just an hour.
As the powerful Category Three Hurricane Odile made landfall and struck Cabo San Lucas at roughly forty five minutes past nine in the evening local time on Sunday (12:45 am ET early Monday), residents and vacationers took refuge in hotels and conference rooms.
The Weather Channel reported by early Monday that vicious winds as the storm's southern eyewall battered the Mexican resort, Cabo San Lucas. As per the earlier reports of NBC news, Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton told them that Hurricane Odile was likely to bring winds that could be pretty shattering.
The area is home to lustrous megaresorts, tiny fishing populations and coastal neighborhoods of insubstantial homes. Forecasters projected a precarious storm surge with large waves as well as dousing rains capable of causing landslides and flash floods. Mexican authorities evacuated coastal areas and prepared shelters for up to 30,000 people. Hurricane Odile was predicted to move northwest to the southern and central Baja peninsula from Sunday night through Tuesday with destructive hurricane-force winds. According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Odile should begin to weaken later Monday as it picks up more stable air and cooler water.
Meanwhile, as the strongest storm stuck Cabo San Lucas, Arizona floods are dreaded as Hurricane Odile brought rain to the Southwest.
On late Tuesday, rain from the strongest storm Odile started to fall in southern Arizona as large parts of the state braced for what meteorologists thought could be historic flooding. While Odile weakened from a hurricane and lost most of its wind power; it is still expected to pour more than four inches of rain on Tuscon and feasibly Phoenix by Friday. With that weather now set in, the National Weather Service has also conveyed flash flood watches for parts of southeast California, southern Nevada, southern Utah, southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico.
The Weather Channel's Senior Meteorologist Matt Crowther said that heavy storms have started and there will be some pretty nasty floods for some populaces. Meteorologists also cautioned that besides to the dangerous flash floods, the storms could also prompt deadly rockslides and mudslides in mountain areas.
While the strongest storm, Hurricane Odile smashed into Mexico's Baja California peninsula, damaging upscale resorts and fishing villages and isolating thousands of tourists. The storm was over the northern part of the Gulf of California at 12:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. ET) on Wednesday and was anticipated to weaken to a tropical depression as it moved over land and into the US territory.
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