Hurricane Lidia dissipates after hitting land at Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta

11 October 2023, 16:14

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Mexico Tropical Weather. Picture: PA

One person was killed by a falling tree and two others were injured.

Hurricane Lidia dissipated on Wednesday after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerta Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others were injured.

The hurricane knocked over trees and blew roofs off houses with winds as high as 140mph (220kph) before moving inland.

Laura Velazquez, the head of Mexico’s civil defence system, said one person died on the northern outskirts of Puerto Vallarta after being hit by a falling tree, and two others were injured elsewhere in the area.

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Firefighters remove trees felled by the winds from Hurricane Lidia in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (AP Photo/Valentin Gonzalez)

On Tuesday, the US National Hurricane Centre said that Lidia’s winds were down to 35 mph as it dissipated about 145 miles (235 kilometres) north-northeast of the city of Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city and the capital of the western state of Jalisco.

Lidia made landfall on a sparsely populated peninsula and then moved inland south of Puerto Vallarta, still with winds of 105mph (165kph).

Victor Hugo Romo, the head of the Jalisco state civil defence office, said several homes around the landfall area had their roofs blown off, and the Puerto Vallarta city government said about a dozen trees had been knocked down there.

Trees were also downed in the neighbouring state of Nayarit.

The US National Hurricane Centre said Lidia’s eye appeared to have reached land near Las Penitas, near Cabo Corrientes, a sparsely populated peninsula.

Lidia remained a powerful hurricane even after moving over land, with some highways briefly blocked in the region.

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A communications antenna lays on the street after Hurricane Lidia hit, in Puerto Vallarta, after bringing winds of 105mph (AP Photo/Valentin Gonzalez)

The state had 23 shelters open, he said.

The Puerto Vallarta city government said a few dozen people had gone to shelters there.

In 2015, Hurricane Patricia, a Category 5 hurricane, also made landfall on the same sparsely-populated stretch of coastline between the resort of Puerto Vallarta and the major port of Manzanillo.

Local authorities cancelled classes in communities around the coast.

The expected impact came one day after Tropical Storm Max hit the southern Pacific coast, hundreds of miles away, and then dissipated.

Rains from Max washed out part of a coastal highway in the southern state of Guerrero.

By Press Association

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