Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The northern eyewall passed over Martinique where a weather station in the island's capital of Fort-de-France reported 13 in (33 cm) of rainfall. [11] By this time the eyewall had closed, forming a distinct eye, [20] and in an environment of low wind shear and increasing ocean temperature the hurricane began to intensify rapidly. [21]
Weather. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... the coast of Belize and the coast of Mexico from Puerto Costa Maya south to Chetumal. ...
[10] [21] Additionally, the government of Mexico issued a tropical storm warning for the Quintana Roo coast from Puerto Costa Maya southward to Chetumal. [22] The Eastern Slopes of the Maya Mountains were placed under landslide warning. [23] President of Honduras Xiomara Castro declared a state of emergency for the nation. [24]
Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world's two largest cuise operators, diverted their ships away from the damaged cruise port of Puerto Costa Maya. Their plans originally expected diversions until at least 2009, [ 35 ] but the central government was quick to fund rebuilding of the destroyed concrete piers.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The beach at Costa Maya Port, looking toward the cruise ship pier The resort of Costa Maya Port viewed from a cruise ship docked at the pier. Costa Maya is a small tourist region in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, the only state bounded by the Caribbean Sea to its east.
The eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula was placed under a set of advisories on July 3: a hurricane warning for the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula from Puerto Costa Maya, Quintana Roo, to Cancún; a tropical storm warning south of Puerto Costa Maya to Chetumal, and north of Cancún to Cabo Catoche; and a tropical storm watch west of Cabo ...
Hurricane Earl was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane to impact Mexico since Hurricane Stan in 2005.The fifth named storm and second hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, Earl formed from a tropical wave south of Jamaica on August 2.