Playa Zipolite. Welcome To The Beach Of The Dead!: Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in western Mexico

A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in western Mexico

By Mary Gilbert, AccuWeather meteorologist & Renee Duff, AccuWeather meteorologist

Published Oct. 20, 2022 7:26 AM AKDT | Updated Oct. 23, 2022 7:46 AM AKDT

After blossoming throughout the weekend into a strong Category 3 hurricane, Roslyn made landfall on Mexico Sunday morning, with the storm expected to bring heavy rain and damaging winds.

Roslyn evolved into a Category 4 storm on Saturday before being downgraded to Category 3 for its landfall at approximately 5:20 a.m. MDT Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm landed in the west-central mainland of Mexico, near Santa Cruz in northern Nayarit. Maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated to be 120 mph (195 km/h), and the storm was moving north-northeast at 16 mph.

As of 10 a.m. CDT, Roslyn was located about 125 miles (200 km) south of Durango, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds weakening to 90 mph (150 km/h), downgrading the storm to a Category 1 hurricane.

AccuWeather forecasters say Roslyn, the season's 17th named system, can take a similar path to Orlene from earlier in the month. The storm ended the brief break in tropical activity across the eastern Pacific Ocean, forming south of Mexico on Thursday.

Roslyn, which originated as Tropical Depression 19-E on Wednesday evening, is the first named storm to roam the East Pacific since Julia, which crossed over from the Atlantic basin. The last storm to actually form in the basin was Tropical Storm Paine. Paine developed in the open waters of the Pacific during the first week of October and was never a threat to land.

Unlike Paine, forecasters say Roslyn poses a significant risk to portions of western Mexico. AccuWeather meteorologists have rated Roslyn a 3 for Mexico on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes based on the expected impacts from wind, rain and storm surge flooding.