Two devastating storms converged over the Pacific Ccean to ravage Mexico, killing at least 42 people and stranding approximately 40,000 tourists in resorts in Acapulco in some of the worst flooding in decades.
What is left of Tropical Storm Manuel battered the Pacific coast as Tropical Depression Ingrid forced the closure of Mexican oil operations. Both storms weakened but not before at least 42 died in the states of Veracruz, Guerrero, Puebla, Hidalgo, Michoachan, and Oaxaca, according to the US National Hurricane Center....
This area of Mexico has been hit repeatedly by strong storms all season. Here again they are mostly near shore storms because of the lack of tropospheric water vapor.
It started out with Tropical Storm Barry and Frenand, Tropical Depression Eight and Tropical Storm Ingrid on the Atlantic side of the nation.
On the Pacific side there has been Hurricane Barbara and Erick, which hit Cat 1 status; followed by Tropical Storms Ivo, Juliette, Kiko, Lorena and currently Manuel.
All this water and wind have created a battered and saturated Mexican infrastructure that is leading to more danger and deaths, injury and displacement to it's citizens.
The difference between Colorado and Mexico are the fires. Colorado's land was first decimated by fire before the rains which caused the rock and land slides and enormous flooding. But, they are all Climate Change events. Drought and flooding of monumental proportions are out of the norm and definitely related to the Climate Crisis. The Climate Crisis is complex and not simply a linear problem with a linear solution. The troposphere of Earth is very dangerous due to Greenhouse Gases. These are the results.
