Elections news from Washington.

Washington DC: November 5th, 2012. 10:00 am Many are following the Presidential elections in the US on Tuesday. Washington DC is swarming with journalist, all of us trying to figure out how to explain this very tight race. Whay should Mexico care? Ambassador to Mexico Arturo Sarukhán said the major subject that will affect the U.S.-Mexico relationship is immigration reform but he said that.....

Saturday 12:20 am Latest on Eduardo. Expect a wet weekend. R

++Thirty communities in the state of Guerrero are under red alert. Extreme rains are expected as Eduardo passes through.  

++High probabilities of intense storms in the states of Chiapas,  Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí. Strong rains expected in the State of Mexico, Colima, Nayarit, Tabasco, Aguascalientes, Morelos, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala and Mexico City.  

++ Three people were killed, rivers flooded over and more than 200 homes were damaged with 1,200 people forced from their homes in Veracruz in the wake of tropical storm Ernesto…

The National Water Commission said that tropical storm Ernesto was losing strength and became a tropical depression but could regain strength and turn into a hurricane over the Pacific Ocean, affecting Guerrero state.

++ Heavy rains in Oaxaca killed a 12-year-old boy when a landslide knocked down two homes in La Cañada region.

++ Petróleos Mexicanos issued an alert asking industries in central and western Mexico to lower their gas consumption because tropical storm Ernesto had damaged the national pipeline system.

Expect a wet weekend in most of Mexico...

I hate to tell you, but the map from the Weather Channel does not lie.  It will be a wet weekend in most of Mexico, especially central Mexico as Ernest remants crash through the area.  Also there is ANOTHER tropical storm looming in the horizon. For more info check the Weather Channel.

Ernesto is now a hurricane!!! Heading your way?

Tracking Hurricane Ernesto

 

Ernesto is heading your way…Category One Hurricane Ernesto hit landfall in Quintana Roo early Wednesday morning… A red alert for maximum danger was in place in five townships in central and southern Quintana Roo. The Yucatán government called on citizens to remain calm and stay informed about the path the hurricane is following… All ports are closed to navigation in Yucatán.

 

Ernesto made landfall as a category one hurricane along Mexico's southern Yucatan coast late Tuesday night. Ernesto became the second hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic Season. Ernesto was also the first Atlantic hurricane to make landfall this year. Latest news and video at Weather.Com

Volcán Popocatépetl - Tochimilco

In the last 24 hours the monitoring system of Popocatepetl volcano registered 41 exhalations of low to medium amplitude, accompanied by emissions of water vapor and gas. It is possible that some of them were accompanied by some ash, but could only confirm one due to cloud cover. There have also been detected tremor isolated segments of low amplitude.

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