Agatha, the first named storm of the eastern Pacific season, became a hurricane Sunday morning and was „rapidly intensifying,“ the National Hurricane Center said.
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Agatha, the first named storm of the eastern Pacific season, became a hurricane Sunday morning and was „rapidly intensifying“, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is expected to make landfall along the southern coast of Mexico on Monday and then „quickly weaken and dissipate as it crosses Mexico“, the center said. It’s „way too early to tell what, if anything“, Hurricane Agatha means for the U.S., meteorologist Craig Setzer wrote on Twitter on Saturday. „Right now we’re just going to be watching“, he said. AccuWeather meteorologists noted they will be closely monitoring the „leftover energy“ from Agatha as it crosses Mexico and enters the Bay of Campeche. „Here, there is a chance it could redevelop into the Atlantic basin’s first named storm“, the outlet reported. The hurricane comes as federal forecasters expect yet another busy Atlantic hurricane season in 2022: As many as 10 hurricanes could form, meteorologists said last week.
