CANCÚN, Mexico – Hurricane Rina weakened yesterday off Mexico’s Caribbean coast, where the approaching storm has prompted evacuations and flight cancellations for tourists visiting popular resorts such as Cancún.
A hurricane-hunting aircraft found Rina had “significantly weakened” to a Category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with its winds dropping to 135km/h, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
Rina is not expected to affect Mexico’s main oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico or coffee-growing areas in Central America that were battered by heavy rains this month. – (Reuters)