Trudy final advisory ends Jalisco coast alert

The National Meteorological Service issued its final advisory about “Trudy” at 21:00 on Monday, October 19. It reported that “Trudy” changed from a tropical storm to a remnant low-pressure system, a system without the characteristics of a cyclone. At 15:00 that day, when “Trudy” was still a tropical storm, it was stationary, with maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour and gusts of 85 kilometers per hour. Its center was 260 kilometers west-southwest of Cabo Corrientes and 460 kilometers south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. Cabo Corrientes is in a municipality neighboring Puerto Vallarta.

The final advisory showed the system as a post-tropical remnant. The remnant low-pressure system had maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour and gusts of 75 kilometers per hour, and it was moving north at 4 kilometers per hour in the final report. The forecast track map did not predict that the system would regain strength. The system that had kept the coasts of Jalisco on alert for several days came to an end.

“Trudy” is weakening and moving away from Mexican territory. The National Meteorological Service said this would be the last notice about “Trudy”; when the SMN says that an advisory is the last one for a system, it means that it will stop issuing specific bulletins about it. The SMN says that a final advisory means the system no longer poses a direct risk to the country, while the agency also specified that Trudy had stopped affecting the Mexican coasts. “Trudy” continues moving away from the Mexican coasts.

For the Jalisco coast, heavy rain was forecast with accumulations of 25 to 50 millimeters, and the rainfall left by “Trudy” could cause landslides. Waves of 2 to 3 meters were expected along the coasts of Jalisco and Baja California Sur, with the waves expected to decrease. One forecast said winds along the Jalisco coast would have gusts of 30 to 50 kilometers per hour. Another forecast said winds along the Jalisco coast would decrease during the day to between 10 and 20 kilometers per hour. Showers of 5 to 25 millimeters were expected in southern Baja California Sur.