Hurricane Lidia intensified this Tuesday to category 3 during its advance through the Pacific towards western Mexico, where it would make landfall at night, reported the National Meteorological Service (SMN).

In the last record, the center of the cyclone was located 210 kilometers southwest of Cabo Corrientes and 260 kilometers southwest of Puerto Vallarta, both municipalities in the state of Jalisco, detailed the National Water Commission (Conagua).

The phenomenon presents maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour, gusts of 220 kilometers per hour and a movement towards the east-northeast at 24 kilometers per hour, the warning added.

“A prevention zone for hurricane effects is maintained from Manzanillo, Colima, to Roblito, Nayarit, including the Marías Islands,” the SMN warned.

Due to Lidia's circulation, “torrential” rains are forecast in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán and Guerrero, as well as “punctually intense” rains in Sinaloa and Durango.

There would also be “very strong occasional” rainfall in Baja California Sur, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes and Guanajuato.

“Such precipitation will cause reduced visibility, landslides, flooding or flooding, as well as an increase in the levels of rivers and streams,” the report detailed.

Likewise, the Meteorological Service predicts winds with gusts of 150 to 170 kilometers per hour and waves of 6 to 8 meters high in Jalisco and Nayarit, in addition to gusts of 130 to 150 kilometers per hour and waves of 4 to 6 meters high in Sinaloa. .

There will also be gusts of 100 to 120 kilometers per hour with waves of 3 to 5 meters high in Colima and Michoacán, and of 70 to 90 kilometers per hour and waves of 2 to 4 meters high in Baja California Sur and Guerrero.

In this context, the SMN asked “to take extreme precautions for the general population in the areas of the mentioned states due to rain, wind and waves, including maritime navigation, and to comply with the recommendations issued by the authorities of the National Civil Protection System.”

Lidia is the twelfth named cyclone of this season in the Pacific, where Adrian, Beatriz, Calvin, Dora, Eugene, Fernanda, Greg, Hilary, Irwin, Jova and Kenneth have also formed.

Of them, the most damaging has been Hilary, which left four dead in August in the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sinaloa.

The Government of Mexico predicted in May the formation of up to 38 named cyclones in the 2023 season, of which five could hit the country.