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Baja Getting Ready For ´Jimena´ Category 5 Storm

by patgarcia | August 31, 2009 at 07:24 pm

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Wednesday afternoon:

The storm made landfall Wednesday afternoon as a Category 1 hurricane between Puerto San Andresito and San Jaunico, a sparsely populated area of fishing villages on the Pacific coast of the peninsula. It skirted the peninsula's main resorts and then weakened to a tropical storm.

Tuesday afternoon:

Hurricane Jimena is weakening slightly as it approaches Baja California, but it remains a Category 4 storm and though its center is 100 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, it is beginning to wreak considerable havoc there and throughout the state of Baja California Sur.

Visiting tourists -- many of them fishermen and surfers -- who chose to stay and ride out the storm are doing so indoors. Some resorts have boarded their windows. Streets are flooded, and rain is torrential at times. The Los Cabos airport was closed at last check, and flight service has been disrupted. Those with scheduled flights over the next few days are urged to consult their carrier.

Tuesday morning in La Paz:

Slight continuous rain no wind, schools closed and mist people at home waiting for ¨Jimena.¨

[q url="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/weather/09/01/hurricane.jimena/"An "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Jimena bore down Tuesday on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California, with the resort town of Cabo San Lucas lying in its path.

Forecasters expect Hurricane Jimena to hit Mexico's Baja California peninsula by Tuesday evening.

The government of Mexico extended a hurricane warning northward along the west coast of the Baja peninsula to Puerto San Andresito and east to the city of Loreto, the U.S. National Weather Service said in an advisory at 5 a.m. ET Tuesday.

The hurricane warning means hurricane conditions are expected in the warning area within the next 24 hours, and forecasters predicted Jimena would strike Baja California by Tuesday evening.

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The city of La Paz has been busy today, as people crowded in supermarkets buying supplies, bottled water, gas, candles, everything needed to be prepared for an emergency like this.
There´s a lot of concern because of the strength of the Hurricane, yet it could just brush the peninsula if so all rain is very well welcomed in the state.
All caution measures have been taken. Schools will stay closed starting tomorrow, many of them are used as shelters.

LOS CABOS, Mexico - Hurricane Jimena grew into a highly dangerous storm as it sped toward Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Monday, scaring tourists, prompting residents to sandbag homes and disrupting a top-level finance conference. Jimena's winds strengthened to nearly 155 mph (249 kph), reaching near the threshold of a deadly Category 5 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Category 5 hurricanes are the top of the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale and can be devastating if they hit land.

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