Mexico Observes Barbara Storm, Expected To Grow to Hurricane Category 1
Satellite image of the Brabara Storm in the Mexican Pacific Ocean. Photo: X/ @agendasetting1
June 8, 2025 Hour: 12:49 pm
Tropical Storm Barbara, the second of the cyclone season, formed in the early hours of this Sunday in the Pacific Ocean, south of the coast of the Mexican state of Guerrero, and is expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane on Monday, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported.
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“Barbara is maintaining its movement towards the west-northwest. Its wide circulation will cause heavy to very heavy punctual rains accompanied by electrical discharges, strong gusts of wind and high waves in the west and south of the Mexican territory,” the SMN noted in its most recent statement.
“The system is expected to intensify to a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale during this afternoon-night or early tomorrow,” he added. The SMN indicated that the meteor formed at 03:00 local time (09:00 GMT) and is located 275 kilometers (km) southwest of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, and 265 km south-southwest of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.
In its trajectory, Barbara records maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour (km/h), streaks of 110 km/h and moves west-northwest at 19 km/h. And its circulation and the drag of moisture that it generates causes very strong rains (50 to 75 mm) in Guerrero, Michoacán, Jalisco and Colima.
In addition, the SMN noted, winds of 40 to 60 km/h are expected with bursts of 70 to 90 km/h on the coasts of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán and Guerrero; in addition to waves of four to five meters high on the coasts of Colima, Michoacán and Guerrero; and three to four meters high on the coast of Jalisco.
The SMN called for “extreme precautions” to the general population in the areas of the states mentioned by rain, wind and waves (including maritime navigation) and meet the recommendations of Civil Protection.
Mexico predicts the possible formation of up to 37 named cyclones in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the 2025 season, five of which could impact the country. Of this number, 16 to 20 systems could be present in the Pacific Ocean and 13 to 17 in the Atlantic.
In the 2024 hurricane season, three cyclones hit Mexico across the Atlantic: Hurricane Beryl and Storm Chris in July; and Storm Alberto in June when it killed six people in New Leon, northern Mexico.
Source: EFE