South America's cold snap eases and Agatha moves towards Florida - The Guardian The Guardian Analysis: first Pacific hurricane of season was made stronger by unusually warm sea surface temperatures. A damaged beach restaurant in Zipolite, ...

South America's cold snap eases and Agatha moves towards Florida - The Guardian The Guardian Analysis: first Pacific hurricane of season was made stronger by unusually warm sea surface temperatures. A damaged beach restaurant in Zipolite, ...

South America’s cold snap eases and Agatha moves towards Florida

Analysis: first Pacific hurricane of season was made stronger by unusually warm sea surface temperatures

A damaged beach restaurant in Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico, after Hurricane Agatha made landfall. Photograph: José de Jesús Cortés/Reuters

Azure Prior (Metdesk)

Fri 3 Jun 2022 03.54 EDT

Exceptionally cold conditions persisted across South America earlier this week. The conditions were alarming at the northern extent with unseasonably low temperature anomalies recorded as far north as the Tropics.

The intensity of the cold brought rare May frosts to low levels across parts of Uruguay and Chile. On 31 May in Santiago, Chile, temperatures fell to -2.1C, the lowest May temperature recorded since 1969, and while this is exceptionally cold for the time of year, many periphery areas outside the main metropolitan city would have been several degrees colder. The cold wave was present across South America for almost a week but is gradually coming to an end through this weekend with warmer conditions returning. However, this event has marked the first shot of polar air for the start of the southern hemisphere winter season.

By contrast, France had its hottest May on record, with an average May temperature of 17.76C, an increase of almost 0.8C from the previous record of 16.96C in 2011. This May record is largely due to the intense heatwave experienced through the middle of the month, when temperatures widely exceeded 30C.

Hurricane Agatha, the first Pacific hurricane of the season, made landfall on Monday 30 May just west of Puerto Angel, as a category 2 hurricane bringing recorded winds of 105mph, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in May since records began in 1949. The severity was largely due to warmer than normal seas surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Pacific Ocean, which acted to fuel and intensify the development of the hurricane. Typically, SSTs tend to be cooler in May than during peak hurricane season, therefore normally limiting hurricane development during May. Having gained momentum, a trough of low pressure to the north dipped southwards, which then drew Hurricane Agatha towards the coast of Mexico.

Once the hurricane made landfall it weakened into a remnant low as it tried to cross the mountainous terrain of southern Mexico. The intense rain associated with the low triggered landslides and flash flooding, affecting mountainous regions the most. The remnants of Agatha will become more organised and strengthen as it pushes north-eastwards towards Florida this weekend, likely bringing intense and persistent rain alongside a significant risk of flooding.

Mexican LGBTQ group rallies support for 'paradise' battered by storm | Reuters Reuters Zipolite, located on the enchanting southern Pacific coast of Oaxaca state, found itself directly in the path of the storm on Monday.

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MEXICO CITY, June 3 (Reuters) - When Hurricane Agatha battered a Mexican beach hamlet popular with LGBTQ residents and visitors earlier this week, members of the community sprang into action to help the town rebound.

Zipolite, located on the enchanting southern Pacific coast of Oaxaca state, found itself directly in the path of the storm on Monday. The storm touched down only about six miles (10 kilometers) west of the town as a Category 2 hurricane, damaging buildings and filling the beach with debris. read more

By Thursday afternoon a GoFundMe campaign had already raised over $21,000 to be used "for the reconstruction of this paradise," the GoFundMe page said.

Zipolite Diverso, a group of over 30 LGBTQ-owned and LGBTQ-inclusive small businesses, organized the fundraiser to address such immediate needs as food and water and to help the community rebuild in coming months.

"None of us were expecting to have such a large response," said Ricky Castellanos, one of the fundraiser's organizers and the owner of a bed-and-breakfast that was damaged in the storm.

Castellanos said the donations could help "provide sustainable services to people who won't be able to get back on their feet right away."

The group raised its fundraising goal to $50,000 from $10,000, saying on its website the damage was huge.

"Thanks to all, Zipolite will come back, and stronger," it added.

Zipolite is famous for being one of Mexico's few nude beaches and has become increasingly popular in recent years with LGBTQ tourists attracted to the town's laid-back attitude.

The popularity boom has strained the water supply and other services and has at times caused tensions between tourists and locals.

"We're organizing this as members of the LGBTQ community, but the aid will be directed to those who need it the most, whether they're part of the community or not," said Thomas Flechel, an artist, business owner and coordinator of Zipolite Diverso.

On social media, the fundraiser was being shared far beyond Mexico's borders.

Tristan McAllister, a brand strategist and podcast host in New York who has visited Zipolite since he was a child, said he had donated to the campaign so the community "can keep on creating the best possible place for the people that need it the most."

"This is a place that young, queer Mexicans need. It's a one-of-a-kind place for Mexico and for the world," McAllister said.

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Mexico death toll from storm Agatha drops to 9, with 4 missing - TimesLIVE TimesLIVE A car passes by a damaged road in the aftermath of Hurricane Agatha, in Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico, June 1, 2022.

 

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Mexico death toll from storm Agatha drops to 9, with 4 missing

02 June 2022 - 08:11BY VALENTINE MARIE HILAIRE, BRENDAN O'BOYLE AND LIZBETH DIAZ AND KYLIE MADRY

A car passes by a damaged road in the aftermath of Hurricane Agatha, in Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico, June 1, 2022.
Image: REUTERS/Jose de Jesus Cortes

The death toll caused by Hurricane Agatha in Mexico fell to nine after initial reports of 11 dead, state authorities said on Wednesday.

Another four are currently missing, authorities told local media.

Agatha made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon, touching down with 105 mile-per-hour (169km per hour) winds near the beach town of Puerto Angel on the Pacific coast, before dissipating on Tuesday as it moved inland.

The governor of Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat, had said on Wednesday morning that 11 were dead and 33 missing following the storm.

State authorities said many of the missing were found after contact was reestablished with Oaxaca's remote communities.

Oaxaca's governor said the tallies of dead and missing were preliminary, and urged people to remain alert.

“It's important the entire population remains safe. There's a likelihood of landslides and river flooding,” Murat said, speaking by video link at a regular government news briefing.

The US National Hurricane centre said on Wednesday morning there was an 80% chance that a cyclone would form in the Atlantic from Agatha's remnants in the next 48 hours.

“This system is likely to become a tropical depression while it moves northeastward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and southeastern Gulf of Mexico during the next couple of days,” the Miami-based agency said.

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Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 07:25 UTC

The Mexican Caribbean is also bracing for some rough weather

After entering history books as the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in Mexico's Pacific coasts during May, Wednesday's reports from the area mention at least 11 fatalities and at least 33 others missing, according to Oaxaca Gov. Alejandro Murat.

 The eye of the storm reached Oaxaca, Mexico, on Monday afternoon as a powerful Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 165 kilometers per hour (105 mph), but quickly lost strength as it moved inland.

Murat said the toll included children. First, he mentioned 10 dead, and later he updated the figure.

After Agatha, communities of the Coast and Sierra Sur of Oaxaca were devastated. Rivers and streams flooded homes, hurricane strong winds destroyed roofs and everything in its way.

The storm dissipated in the afternoon, but both the U.S. National Hurricane Center and Mexican authorities warned that heavy rainfall could cause dangerous flash flooding in Mexico's southern states. Murat asked the population to remain alert for possible new overflows and landslides.

The town of San Isidro del Palmar, a few kilometers from the coast, was flooded by the Tonameca River. Residents dodged the neck-deep waters to save what items they could from their homes, walking cautiously with piles of clothes on their heads and religious figures in their arms.

Santa María Tonameca was one of the municipalities on the coast to suffer the most damage from Agatha.

Intense rainfall and a strong swell hit the tourist towns of Zipolite, known for its nudist beaches and surfing, and Mazunte, another popular beach with a bohemian atmosphere that on Tuesday was beginning to remove mud from restaurants and clean fallen roofs, most of them made of palm trees.

Agatha, the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast in the month of May since record-keeping began in 1949, made landfall as a category two hurricane Monday bringing torrential rainfall that caused rivers to overflow and mountainsides to rapidly erode. It slammed a stretch of small beach towns and fishing villages and moved inland to Oaxaca’s mountain regions, where it lost much of its strength.

More than 40,000 people statewide were hit by the storm, Murat said. Many have lost power or seen their homes destroyed. Most of the 11 victims were either buried in landslides or drowned in flash floods they were swept away with, according to reports.

In addition to Agatha, forecasters said a large area of thunderstorms along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula has a 70% chance of developing into a tropical depression in the next 48 hours.

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Les communautés vulnérables qui vivent dans l'arrière-pays de la côté Pacifique du Mexique ont été gravement touchées par l'ouragan Agatha. 

Agatha devastated Piña Palmera, a center for people with disabilities in Zipolite; they cry for help The organization explained that they receive donations in kind at collection centers in Mexico City and the city of Oaxaca; donations can also be made to your bank account

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Agatha devastated Piña Palmera, a center for people with disabilities in Zipolite; they cry for help

The organization explained that they receive donations in kind at collection centers in Mexico City and the city of Oaxaca; donations can also be made to your bank account

Oaxaca de Juárez .– The Piña Palmera Children's Care Center , a civil association dedicated to the care of people with disabilities , launched an urgent call to request help from the three levels of government, organized civil society and the population in general, before the damage caused to its facilities by Hurricane Agatha .

The organization explained that they receive donations in kind at collection centers in Mexico City and the city of Oaxaca , such as non-perishable food and bottled water, tools such as shovels, crowbars, construction material, as well as material to help with the lack of electricity and drinking water electric generators and water pumps; or donations can be made to your bank account.

Through a statement, Piña Palmera explained that the hurricane made landfall last Monday just 10 kilometers from the community of Zipolite on the Oaxaca Coast, belonging to the municipality of San Pedro Pochutla , where its facilities are located.

 

They estimate in Oaxaca more than 38 thousand victims only in Pochutla, where Hurricane Agatha made landfall

 

Fortunately, he noted, no one was harmed and all disabled people, volunteers and workers escaped unharmed. But the facilities were devastated by the passage of the hurricane.

In addition, he added, they still do not have information on the conditions of hundreds of people with and without disabilities who live in the populations of the Coast and Sierra Sur in which the organization has a presence.

According to the first assessments, more than 70% of the spaces dedicated to the care and attention of people with disabilities suffered severe damage. Workshops, houses and rooms of staff and volunteers were totally destroyed, as well as hydraulic and electrical installations and all telephone and Internet communication services.

 

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There was also an absolute loss of equipment and furniture of all kinds, including those necessary to carry out therapy, mobilize people with disabilities and care for them in critical situations. Due to the great flood derived from more than six hours of torrential rains and gusts of wind, all the reserves of medicine, food and drinking water were lost.

"Faced with such a situation, we make an urgent call to the three orders of government, organized civil society and the general public to deal with this emergency," the organization said.

Piña Palmera asked for support to receive bottled water, rice, beans, corn, powdered milk, sugar, powdered coffee, water pumps, electric generators, solar cell lamps, hand lamps, shovels, construction materials, ropes, ropes. , ropes and bars.

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