Tropical storm Pamela strengthens off the coast of the Mexican Pacific

Tropical Storm Pamela, which formed on Sunday, has strengthened as it moves off the Mexican coast in the Pacific and is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane Monday night, according to Mexico's National Weather Service.

The center of the storm was located 410 miles (660 kilometers) south-southwest of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, on Monday night and was moving northwest at about 7 miles per hour (11 kilometers per hour).

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Its maximum sustained winds reached 70 miles per hour

(110 kilometers), just 4 miles per hour from reaching hurricane strength.

Forecasts indicate that Pamela could become a force majeure hurricane before making landfall in the Mexican state of Sinaloa on Wednesday, with winds of more than 111 miles per hour (178 kilometers per hour).

The meteorological service of Mexico and the National Hurricane Center based in Miami, Florida,

, Sinaloa.

Tropical storm Pamela on the morning of Monday, October 11, 2021, in the Mexican Pacific Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States (NOAA) / AP

In addition to a surveillance zone for tropical storm effects from Bahía Tempehuaya to Altata, Sinaloa, as well as from Escuinapa, Sinaloa, to San Blas, Nayarit, and from Los Barriles to Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, including the Marías Islands.

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Four to eight inches of rain is expected to fall in Sinaloa and Durango, with highs of up to 12 inches in some isolated areas.

For this reason,

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Pamela is forecast to veer north and northeast, passing near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula in hurricane force Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Subsequently, the phenomenon is expected to weaken as it passes through northern Mexico and approaches the Texas border as a tropical depression on Thursday, bringing heavy rains to the area.

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This year in the Pacific Ocean the cyclones Andrés, Blanca, Carlos, Dolores, Enrique, Felicia, Guillermo, Hilda, Ignacio, Jimena, Kevin, Linda, Marty, Nora, Olaf and Pamela have formed.

Dolores made landfall in mid-June in southwestern Mexico,

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In mid-August, the rains generated by Grace -formed in the Atlantic- that made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico, caused the death of at least 11 people in Mexico -8 in the state of Veracruz and 3 in the central state of Puebla - in addition to flooding and severe damage.

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