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Residents stand on a beach ahead of the arrival of Hurrican John, in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca state, Mexico Sept. 23, 2024.
John struck Mexico’s southern coast on Monday night as a Category 3 hurricane after rapidly strengthening in the Pacific, triggering warnings of “life-threatening” floods and mudslides.
It hit land as a Category 3 hurricane, pummeling a tourist hub of the country's Oaxaca state with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph (190 kph). Shortly before the hurricane hit, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said “life-threatening” and storm surges and flash floods were already ravaging the Pacific coast near Oaxaca.
Near and just east of where the eye moved ashore in south-central Mexico, a storm surge of 6-10 feet likely occurred. ... At 9 p.m. on Monday, John was a 120-mph hurricane and had increased by 85 ...
John was barreling forward as a Category 2 hurricane Monday afternoon, but was forecast to continue strengthening possibly into a major Category 4 storm before making landfall Tuesday. John’s forecast path continued shifting so the point of landfall remained uncertain.
Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing deadly floods and landslides ...
Hurricane John was a powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that caused deadly flooding across southern Mexico for several days in September 2024. The eleventh named storm , fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2024 Pacific hurricane season , John originated from a low-pressure area offshore Southern Mexico.
The center has issued hurricane warnings for part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and Florida’s northwestern coastline, where large storm surges of up to 15 feet (4.5 meters) were expected. Meanwhile, former Hurricane John re-formed as a tropical storm and threatened areas of Mexico's western coast anew.