Javier nears tip of Mexico’s Baja; 45 dead in earlier storm
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CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Tropical Storm Javier weakened a bit as it bore down on the resort city of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula late Monday, while the death toll from former Hurricane Earl rose to 45 in Mexico’s eastern mountains.
Communities in two states were digging out from weekend mudslides during heavy rains brought by remnants of Earl, which hit Mexico’s Gulf coast as a tropical storm. Three more bodies were found amid the mud and floodwaters in central Puebla state, bringing the death toll there to 32. Two more dead were found in neighbouring Veracruz, raising the toll in that state to 13.
Javier was forecast to scrape along the shore as it passed by Cabo San Lucas during the night and continue on a northerly track, raking the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula.
The storm was centred about 30 miles (50 kilometres) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas late Monday, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. It said two to four inches of rain could fall on the peninsula’s southern portion, with possible maximum amounts up to eight inches in isolated spots.
