President Claudia Sheinbaum urged the public to take shelter as Hurricane Simón advanced, after it intensified to Category 3 off the coasts of Colima and Jalisco on the night of Friday, October 9. "It is important to take shelter and, in the case of vulnerable areas, to evacuate to the temporary shelters that have been set up," the president wrote.
The report from the U.S. National Hurricane Center, cited by Proceso, places the center of Simón 245 kilometers south of Manzanillo, Colima, and 415 kilometers south-southeast of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, with maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers per hour and a slow movement of 11 kilometers per hour toward the north-northeast. Civil Protection expects the storm to intensify to Category 4 and its center to pass very close to or over Mexico's central-western coast on Sunday. For families on the Pacific coast and their relatives in the United States and Canada, the alert opens a window of hours to locate shelters, gather documents and medications, and follow official advisories.
According to El Universal, heavy to torrential rains are covering Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit, and the DN-III-E and Marina plans are active in the preventive phase, with brigades from CFE, SICT, Conagua and Pemex ready for the emergency. In Jalisco, classes were suspended and the tourism sector in Puerto Vallarta was asked to move workers and visitors into shelters or safe areas as of Friday afternoon. In Guerrero, Governor Evelyn Salgado reported damage in Acapulco with no fatalities, and the Proceso report warns of rainfall accumulations of between 20 and 38 centimeters in the southwest of the country, with up to 63 centimeters in isolated areas.
The official forecast indicates that the center of Simón will pass very close to or over the coast on Sunday, October 11, with a possible impact between Jalisco and Colima. The next update from the National Meteorological Service will indicate whether the alert rises to Category 4 and whether evacuations expand in the five states under watch.
This article was written with the assistance of artificial intelligence based on verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.
