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Hurricane Bud to strengthen, threaten Mexico with flooding as Aletta weakens AccuWeather.com ... flooding are not expected from Bud through Monday; however, more widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected from Oaxaca to Jalisco.
| Hurricane Bud to strengthen, threaten Mexico with flooding as Aletta weakens
... flooding are not expected from Bud through Monday; however, more widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected from Oaxaca to Jalisco.
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Hurricane Bud to strengthen, threaten Mexico with flooding as Aletta weakens
By Renee Duff, AccuWeather meteorologist
By Eric Leister, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
June 11, 2018, 2:09:12 AM EDT
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On the heels of Aletta, the first hurricane of the East Pacific hurricane season, Hurricane Bud has developed and will threaten western Mexico with flooding rainfall this week.
Aletta began as a tropical depression south of Mexico on Tuesday night before quickly reaching hurricane status early Thursday afternoon. By early Friday morning, Aletta rapidly strengthened to a major hurricane, reaching Category 4 hurricane status only a few hours later.
However, Aletta quickly dropped back to tropical storm status on Saturday.
Aletta will continue to track west-northwest, well south of the Mexico coastline as it dissipates through the beginning of the week.
As threats from Aletta diminish, Bud will bring a new round of threats this week.
Bud is expected to move northwestward into Wednesday as it strengthens, tracking closer to the Mexico coastline than Aletta.
Damaging winds and widespread flash flooding are not expected from Bud through Monday; however, more widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected from Oaxaca to Jalisco.
Some localized incidents of flash flooding are possible, but most locations will notice only an uptick in rainfall.
Coastal areas from Jalisco to Guerrero could have additional bouts of heavy rain and thunderstorms as Bud nears the coast during the middle of the week.
Communities such as Manzanillo, Tecomán and Colola will have to remain on alert for flash flooding through at least Wednesday. Small rivers and streams may quickly rise out of their banks and turn into deadly torrents.
Rough seas and dangerous rip currents will once again threaten beaches from Acapulco to Mazatlan, as well as southern Baja California, even though the storm remains far from these areas.
Boaters and bathers should use extreme caution and heed all small craft and beach advisories as they are issued.
If caught in a rip current, it is best to swim parallel to shore until free of its influence.
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"Bud is likely to strengthen as we go through the early part of the week as it travels over the same warm waters that Aletta just went through," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Courtney Spamer.
However, the track of the storm is not expected to be the same as Aletta.
"Instead of curving westward, Bud could continue its northward track toward the Baja Peninsula of Mexico. Although weakening would be likely, this track could send tropical moisture into the southwestern United States late this week," Spamer added.
Such moisture would be beneficial to drought-stricken areas of the southwestern United States, but could also create flash flooding issues if there is too much rain too quickly.
AccuWeather meteorologists anticipate that the East Pacific basin will remain active this season with an above-normal number of tropical cyclones forecast.
Anthony Bourdain had a deep love affair with Mexico and Mexican cuisine Mexico News Daily Oaxaca was another favorite hunting and eating ground for the acclaimed television personality, whose death yesterday triggered an outpouring of ...
| Anthony Bourdain had a deep love affair with Mexico and Mexican cuisine
Oaxaca was another favorite hunting and eating ground for the acclaimed television personality, whose death yesterday triggered an outpouring of ...
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Bourdain with Abigail Mendoza, second from left, in Oaxaca.Anthony Bourdain had a deep love affair with Mexico and Mexican cuisine
He enjoyed tlayudas in Oaxaca, tostadas in Ensenada and migas in Tepito
“Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace. Look at it. It’s beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history.”
There could be no doubting chef Anthony Bourdain’s deep love of Mexico — and particularly authentic Mexican food — that was cultivated during several trips to various parts of the country and which he wrote about in a 2014 essay entitled Under the Volcano.
But the writer, television personality and celebrity chef’s love affair with Mexico — and many other countries around the world — has come to an end. Bourdain died in France yesterday by his own hand. He was 61.
After shooting to fame on the back of a 1999 confessional piece in The New Yorker in which he spilled secrets about the restaurant trade and then a follow-up book entitled Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain entered the world of television.
While filming for his first show, A Cook’s Tour, Bourdain made his first professional visit to Mexico, traveling to the hometown of a Mexican cook with whom he worked in the New York restaurant Brasserie Les Halles.
In Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Bourdain learned about the elaborate process to make mole poblano, chowed down on escamoles (ant larvae) and enchiladas and sampled the viscous, pre-Hispanic drink of the gods made out of the fermented sap of the maguey plant, pulque.
An infatuation with real Mexican food that would last for years was born.
During visits to Mexico City, Bourdain ate tacos al pastor on the streets of the historic center, migas (a traditional soup) — washed down with a michelada — at La Güera in the notorious neighborhood of Tepito and fell in love with the cerdo en salsa verde and refried beans at the breakfast diner Fonda Margarita in Colonia del Valle.
He also visited the massive wholesale market Central de Abasto, enjoyed some of the capital’s famous cantinas and dined at the upscale restaurant Máximo Bistrot.
While making his second show, No Reservations, Bourdain visited Baja California where he ate tacos and drank mezcal in Tijuana and devoured a lobster lunch on the beach at Rosarito.
The highlight, however, was undoubtedly his visit to the seafood street stand in Ensenada called La Guerrerense.
There, Bourdain ate ceviche, scallop, sea snail, sea urchin and octopus tostadas and met the stand’s owner and namesake, Guerrero-native Sabina Bandera, whom he called a “genius.” He would later invite her to show off her culinary talents at a street food convention in Singapore.
Oaxaca was another favorite hunting and eating ground for the acclaimed television personality, whose death yesterday triggered an outpouring of emotion from fans around the world.
On his first visit to the southern state, Bourdain ate iguana and tamales while on a more recent visit he sampled tlayudas (a large, crispy tortilla filled with a variety of ingredients), squash blossom soup and atole (a hot corn-based beverage) with internationally renowned chef Abigail Mendoza in the town of Teotitlán del Valle. While there, he marveled at the delicateness of a Zapotec woman’s hands and the strength of her forearms as she ground corn to make tortillas.
Bourdain also ate at the renowned pasillo del humo, or smoky aisle, in Oaxaca City’s central market, where visitors are usually affected more by the delicious smells of the grilling meats than the wafts of smoke. The New Yorker, however, was more than just a connoisseur of all kinds of weird and wonderful food from all over Mexico and beyond.
He was also a champion of the underdog who stood up for immigrants in the United States, aware that they are the backbone of some sectors of the economy.
“Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes [and] look after our children,” he wrote in his 2014 essay.
He also questioned why many of his compatriots embrace Mexican food, beverages, people and other products and aspects of the country but not Mexico itself.
“Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people — as we sure employ a lot of them . . .” Bourdain said.
“We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we,” as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them — and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films,” he continued.
“So why don’t we love Mexico?”
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