Tropical Storm Carlotta

Tropical Storm Carlotta : 5 Day Forecast Map | Weather Underground

 As I write this, Carlotta is still a tropical storm, moving about 10 miles an hour NNW, with wind speeds up to 65 miles per hour. If you read the discussion part of the link, she is expected to become a Cat 1 Hurricane tomorrow morning, and we in Huatulco will get heavy rain and wind for most of tomorrow, with the peak of the storm passing us late tomorrow afternoon and evening.

As news of Carlotta spread today, the marine community put emergency measures into action. Local authorities have a hurricane readiness program that involves all municipal, state and federal authorities. The ramps in Santa Cruz and Marina Chahue were busy with pangas being hauled, NO RAMP FEE, and some of the big catamarans have moved to Chahue for the duration of the storm.Wonder why they are moving their boats??? Buoyweather is predicting over 4 meter waves tomorrow, that's right, over 12 foot waves!

Lancheras hauled their pangas to the lot in front of the Municipal Building in Chahue, behind Guelegetza Park. There are far more lanchas than remolques (trailers), so the pangas are blocked up on old tires and fuel tanks and some of them tied to the huge huanacastle tree next to the parking lot.

Update tomorrow.

UPDATED! Tropical Storm Heading to Huatulco

DOWNGRADED TO 20% PROBABILITY

Click on link below and hover your cursor over the yellow circle on the map.

National Hurricane Center

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?epac

We have been watching Jova and Irwin progress toward the coast of Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit.

There is a disturbance in the Tehuantepec that has been brewing for a few days - it is currently south of Salina Cruz, and is "disorganized" so the possibility of it becoming a "tropical cyclone" has been downgraded in the last few days from 80% to 40% this morning. The forecasters say we will definitely get heavy rains from this system, but keep checking for changes.

Batten down the hatches