NU Online News Service, Sept. 3, 2:03 p.m. EDT
Hurricane Jimena struck Baja California twice, but spared the Southern tip of the peninsula–popular with tourists–with a direct hit.
The now tropical storm is moving slowly along the peninsula, dumping one to two inches of rain on the peninsula and soaking the West coast of Mexico with accumulations between three and five inches, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The latest Guy Carpenter Cat-i report said some towns along Baja's West coast were hit with hurricane force winds, but the region is generally sparsely populated and there have been no reports of major damage.
There were reports of trees and lamp posts falling in one town along with damages to homes and power outages.
Around 5,000 people were evacuated in the wake of the storm, Guy Carpenter said.
Jimena made landfall around 5 p.m. yesterday as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with sustained winds near 85 mph according to the NHC.
In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Erika was located about 199 miles east-southeast of Puerto Rico with winds near 40 mph. The storm is expected to become a tropical depression by Friday.
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