Mexico and the United States are watching from Cabo Catoche to Chetumal and Quintan Roo.

Given these conditions, the Mexican Meteorological Service, in coordination with the US National Hurricane Center, has established a hurricane watch area from Cabo Catoche to Chetumal, Quintana Roo.

SMN said that “at this time, the system is not affecting the Mexican coast,” but based on its trajectory, “Beryl cloud bands are expected to bring heavy to occasionally heavy rainfall beginning Thursday, strong gusts of wind and high waves on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Given these conditions, the SMN recommended heeding warnings and following the recommendations of the state and civil protection authorities.

Beryl’s Double Influence in Mexico

SMN warned on Monday of a double whammy of Beryl in Mexico, where Thursday and Friday will come ashore in Quintana Roo.

While between Sunday and Mondaywill reach the state next week Veracruz.

On Tuesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized the “sensation” surrounding Hurricane Beryl, which on Monday became a Category 5, the most intense cyclone so far this early in the Atlantic cyclone season.

“They will never be helpless, but they should not be upset either, because there will be a lot of sensationalism here too, too much information about the hurricane, exaggerated,” the president told residents of the Mexican Caribbean islands at his morning conference.

Beryl is the first hurricane of the season and sets a “worrying precedent” as a cyclone of maximum intensity has never formed in the Atlantic at this time of year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday.

But López Obrador noted that “there is no certainty right now that it will arrive with force and that it will enter through Chetumal,” the capital of Quintana Roo, “or through any other city, that still doesn’t exist.” (EFE)