{"id":658554,"date":"2026-10-18T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/658554\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:30:12","slug":"el-nino-and-climate-change-are-bringing-record-hurricanes-to-mexicos-pacific-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/658554\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o and climate change are bringing record hurricanes to Mexico’s Pacific coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MEXICO CITY \u00a0\u2014\u00a0Javier Soto and his neighbors had just begun cleaning up flood and mudslide damage from the last hurricane<\/a> when another major storm<\/a> began brewing in the Pacific Ocean, once again threatening their community north of Puerto Vallarta.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get through one storm only to face another,\u201d said Soto, 39, a travel agent in the beach town of Bah\u00eda de Banderas, where it has been raining for weeks straight. \u201cIt feels like a tunnel with no exit in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n

A record-shattering hurricane season in the eastern Pacific has been battering Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast, bringing death and destruction to states including Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima and Baja California.<\/p>\n

Ten hurricanes have formed in the eastern Pacific so far this year, the most since 2018. And more are predicted. <\/p>\n

Meteorologists say a powerful El Ni\u00f1o and warmer ocean temperatures caused by climate change have super<\/p>\n

\"Residents <\/p>\n

Residents clean mud and debris from their flooded homes after severe damage caused by Tropical Storm Rachel in Ensenada, Baja California, on Oct. 15. <\/p>\n

(Omar Martinez \/ Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

charged the storms, which have lasted longer than usual and have sustained stronger winds than is typical.<\/p>\n

The latest storm is Trudy<\/a>, a Category 1 hurricane that was expected to pass Mexico\u2019s southwestern coast on Sunday. Authorities from Guerrero to Nayarit warned that Trudy could strengthen, and said heavy rainfall could cause major damage because the ground is already saturated from previous storms. <\/p>\n

Residents on Mexico\u2019s Pacific coastline are accustomed to powerful hurricanes. <\/p>\n

But many say this year feels different because long-lasting storms have hit in quick succession, giving residents little chance to clean up and dry out.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou haven\u2019t even recovered from one storm when the next one arrives,\u201d said Ricardo Trejo, 43, a restaurant manager in Acapulco. The famed resort town was hit by Hurricane Polo in late September and again by Hurricane Simon days later. <\/p>\n

As Trudy approached this week, Trejo and his staff found themselves once again boarding up their seaside cafe \u2014 while bracing themselves for lost income and potential damage. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery hurricane leaves behind disaster and financial loss,\u201d Trejo said. \u201cTourism drops, work is lost, families suffer, kids miss school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Baja California Peninsula has also been battered by a series of powerful storms \u2014 first Polo and then Rachel. Authorities said eight people were killed in Ensenada, a beach town just south of the U.S. border.<\/p>\n

Residents there say roads and beaches are still badly damaged, and that more government support is needed. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are asking the government to declare a disaster zone so that more financial resources will arrive,\u201d said Gerardo Guti\u00e9rrez, 56. \u201cWe neighbors are cleaning everything by ourselves.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Men <\/p>\n

Men survey a road damaged by a swollen river along the road to Las Barrancas, in Baja California Sur state, on Sept. 29 in the aftermath of Hurricane Polo. <\/p>\n

(Eduardo Verdugo \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Roberto Flores, a 53-year-old shop owner in Loreto, an even more remote town on the Baja Peninsula, said locals were also waiting for more help from federal authorities. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe survive here because we help one another \u2014 neighbors helping neighbors,\u201d Flores said. \u201cWere it not for that, we would be completely abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flores and others said they were unnerved by this year\u2019s storm season, and worried that it was a consequence of humans throwing the natural world out of balance. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose of us who live here know that hurricanes are normal, but what isn\u2019t normal is having them one after another without a break, and all of them severe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast was hit by its most powerful storm on record, Otis<\/a>, which slammed into Acapulco as a Category 5 hurricane after strengthening rapidly. Meteorologists blamed its rapid growth on unseasonably warm ocean temperatures triggered by El Ni\u00f1o and human-caused climate change. Dozens of people were killed and Acapulco suffered billions of dollars in damage. <\/p>\n

Graciela Ram\u00edrez, a 49-year-old cook in Puerto Vallarta, said she worried that powerful storms were the new normal. <\/p>\n

Her working-class neighborhood was badly damaged in earlier storms this year \u2014 with homes flooded and landslides wiping out streets. <\/p>\n

Now she and her family were packing their bags to go to a shelter to wait out Trudy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere we go again, she said. \u201cWe\u2019re left without work, living in fear that the hurricane might strike with full force and we could lose everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linthicum reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and S\u00e1nchez from Mexico City. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY \u00a0\u2014\u00a0Javier Soto and his neighbors had just begun cleaning up flood and mudslide damage from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[278713,12385,185650,278715,2885,246,31864,61,60,2628,278716,63300,278711,115891,278714,82,17142,278712,742],"class_list":["post-658554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-acapulco","tag-authority","tag-baja-california","tag-beach-town","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-hurricane","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mexico","tag-nayarit","tag-neighbor","tag-pacific-coast","tag-powerful-storm","tag-ricardo-trejo","tag-science","tag-storm","tag-trudy","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}