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Mexico - Tropical cyclone BARBARA, update (GDACS, NOAA-NHC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 June 2025)

  • The tropical cyclone BARBARA formed over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on 9 June as tropical storm. It strengthened moving northwestward over the Ocean as hurricane on 9 June, and becoming the first hurricane of the 2025 eastern Pacific season, weakining to tropical storm on the night of 10 June. On 10 June at 3.00 UTC, its centre was located offshore approximately 265 km south-west of the coast of Jalisco state and 338 km south-west of Puerto Vallalta city, in southern Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h.
  • BARBARA is forecast to continue northwestward over the Ocean, along the coast of southern and western Mexico, and to pass approximately 190 km south of the southernmost area of the Baja California Sur state on 12 June as a tropical depression.
  • Over the next 48 hours, strong winds are forecast over coastal areas of southern and western Mexico.