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Hurricane Celia spins further away from Mexico
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June 22, 2010, Tuesday
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HURRICANE Celia, the first hurricane of the 2010 Pacific season, strengthened yesterday, but continued on a westward path away from Mexico, the US National Hurricane Center said.
A Category 1 hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean with sustained winds up to 90 mph [150 kph], Celia was about 515 miles [830 km] south of the port city of Manzanillo and moving westward, away from land, at 9 mph [15 kph].
Some strengthening was expected in the next 48 hours as Celia was forecast to keep to a path that would not pose a threat to land, said the center, and there are no oil installations on its likely course.
Celia is the third named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season and the center forecast that a broad area of low pressure a few hundred miles south of Guatemala and El Salvador had a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within 48 hours.
In May, Tropical Storm Agatha slammed into the Guatemalan coast and caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 180 people.
A storm system north of Venezuela is moving westward, deeper into the Caribbean and could deliver heavy rain to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the storm center said.
The US government's weather agency has predicted the 2010 Atlantic storm season could be the most intense since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,000 people and disrupted oil production at Gulf of Mexico energy facilities.
A Category 1 hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean with sustained winds up to 90 mph [150 kph], Celia was about 515 miles [830 km] south of the port city of Manzanillo and moving westward, away from land, at 9 mph [15 kph].
Some strengthening was expected in the next 48 hours as Celia was forecast to keep to a path that would not pose a threat to land, said the center, and there are no oil installations on its likely course.
Celia is the third named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season and the center forecast that a broad area of low pressure a few hundred miles south of Guatemala and El Salvador had a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within 48 hours.
In May, Tropical Storm Agatha slammed into the Guatemalan coast and caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 180 people.
A storm system north of Venezuela is moving westward, deeper into the Caribbean and could deliver heavy rain to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the storm center said.
The US government's weather agency has predicted the 2010 Atlantic storm season could be the most intense since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,000 people and disrupted oil production at Gulf of Mexico energy facilities.
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