The first hurricane of the season formed off Mexico's southern Pacific coast Sunday and rapidly gained power ahead of an expected strike along a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns as a major storm.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Agatha was expected to make landfall as a powerful Category 3 hurricane Monday afternoon or evening in the area near Puerto Escondido and Puerto Angel in the southern state of Oaxaca - a region that includes the laid-back tourist resorts of Huatulco, Mazunte and Zipolite.By late Sunday, the recently formed hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 110 mph - just 1 mph under the threshold for a Category 3, the hurricane center said.
Municipal authorities in Huatulco ordered “the absolute closure” of all the resort's beaches and its famous “seven bays,” many of which are reachable only by boat. They also closed local schools and began setting up emergency storm shelters. The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned of dangerous costal flooding as well as large and destructive waves near where Agatha makes landfall.
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