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PresenZIHa de Monsón Mexicano

by ZihuaRob ⌂ @, Zihuatanejo, México, Sunday, August 31, 2025, 19:55 (435 days ago)


https://youtu.be/pQG6gAIo-3M

The rain has already started in Zihuatanejo after a picture-postcard-perfect day of beautiful beach weather. It's currently raining some serious cats and dogs, a torrential downpour in downtown Zihuatanejo. Expect some serious flooding.

Tropical wave #29 in combination with a low-pressure zone with a high probability of cyclonic formation is bringing us large waves of 2 to 3 meters and a Mexican Monsoon of intense rain. Wind gusts of 50 to 70 km/h are expected along our coast. You may want to bunch smaller potted plants together with larger ones so they withstand the winds. We lost a tree at our house in Ixtapa with the storm that blew through Friday night-Saturday morning.

As beach sweepers were cleaning the downtown beach this morning, a large wave surprised a small group of 3 or 4 workers and sent them running, abandoning a wheelbarrow one of them was pushing, but they didn't run fast enough and they all got wet up to their knees at least as the wave washed halfway up the beach. There have been many large waves from the passing storms, but today's were some of the largest I've seen in the bay in quite a while. Certainly for this year.

The pier at Playa Linda had to suspend operations this Sunday due to the large waves. Playa Madera was closed top swimmers. Lamentably, a person was reported drowned at Playa La Ropa this Sunday evening.

Keep an eye on the weather!
https://www.zihuatanejo.net/html/weather.html

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¡Cuidemos nuestro patrimonio!
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#DenunciaElEcocidio

Un evento de mar de fondo combinado con una zona de tormentas frente a nuestra costa nos está causando olas muy grandes en la bahía de Zihuatanejo.
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Rainfall 2025?

by Sunlight Dancer @, Sunday, August 31, 2025, 22:38 (435 days ago) @ ZihuaRob

Any news from Rob about heavy rainfall is music to my ears. I expressed concern here several months ago regarding the deficit rainfall in 2024 and the projection by CAPAZ that our groundwater supply would be depleted by March.

From what I can cipher, Zihuatanejo received about 8 inches of rain in July and 7.44 inches in August. September is usually the wettest month and we have many days of rainfall in October as well.

Does anyone have a way to 1. Verify the rainfall amounts this season, and
2. Find out if our groundwater supply is projected to be adequately replenished? Thanks very much!

Rainfall 2025?

by Altona Stu @, Altona, Manitoba, Sunday, August 31, 2025, 23:38 (435 days ago) @ Sunlight Dancer

A member of this website has a weather station on La Ropa. He has several times posted a link to allow us to access his station live. It shows 16.04 inches of rain YTD as I type this.

https://www.zihuatanejo.net/tablero/index.php?id=172623 has the link he provided.

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Rainfall 2025?

by Talley Ho @, Playa la Ropa, Monday, September 01, 2025, 08:01 (434 days ago) @ Altona Stu

Weirdly, during a wild thunder storm in July, one big bolt took out one pool light, one computer power supply, one kitchen light, and set the rainfall totals BACK 3.09 inches.

We are currently at 19.13 inches as of this morning.

The female part of the team does the posting.....