Reuters.- Hurricane Olaf weakened on Friday after hitting the tourist area of Los Cabos, at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, leaving heavy rains, winds and waves in the area, without any human damage or material reported so far.
At 5:00 a.m. local time, Olaf was located 55 kilometers east-southeast of La Paz, Baja California Sur, and was blowing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour (km / h), according to the United States National Hurricane Center. NHC).
The cyclone was moving at 17 km / h towards the northwest, in a path parallel to the west coast of the state of Baja California Sur, where La Paz and Los Cabos are located.
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State authorities canceled activities in the region on Thursday, traditional destination for American and Canadian tourists, and nearly 50 flights have been suspended.
Olaf, which made landfall Thursday evening as a Category 2 hurricane, will bring intense point rains (75 to 150 millimeters, mm), possible waterspouts and waves of three to five meters in the state of Basse – Southern California in the next few hours. . , according to the local National Water Commission (Conagua).
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Intervals of showers are also expected in Nayarit and Sinaloa, and in the southern Sea of Cortez, according to Conagua, which warned of possible “landslides, rising river and stream levels, and overflows and flooding in low areas.”
The NHC predicted that Olaf would weaken into a tropical storm on Friday night as it began to pull away from the coast.
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