Storm likely to become Hurricane Erick bearing down on Mexico

AccuWeather forecasters are expecting flooding rainfall and damaging winds on the southwest side of Mexico around June 18-20.

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00:00Well, the Atlantic remains very quiet, and you can see into an area north of Mexico.

00:05There's a little bit of convection, but there's a lot of wind shear, a lot of wind shear into the southwestern Gulf and across the Caribbean.

00:11That's probably going to prevent us from seeing anything in the next week and a half here on the Atlantic side.

00:16Now, with that said, we have some news brewing.

00:18Remember last week we talked about Dahlia, or Delilah, I should say, and Tropical Storm Delilah became a story,

00:26and it brushed Mexico near Acapulco with some heavy rain.

00:29There's another storm on the map here that's going to get going, and this is going to impact an area a bit more severely.

00:35This storm is actually going to make a run into Mexico with some strong winds,

00:41and it'll likely become a hurricane before it reaches Mexico.

00:44So we're looking at a storm that has yet to get an aim, but it will become the next one to develop.

00:49With 80 to 100 mile per hour gusts just east of the point of anticipated landfall,

00:53there will also be a significant storm surge.

00:55You can see on the key here, one to three foot storm surge in the lighter shade of blue,

00:59and a three to six foot storm surge just east of the point of landfall, which may be somewhere near Puerto Escondido.

01:06So we've got to keep an eye on that, and there will be some very heavy rain with this as well.

01:11Now, again, the worst of the impacts with Delilah brushed the area near Acapulco, and it moved out to sea.

01:17And the center of that storm never made it in.

01:19This storm is likely to make landfall in Mexico, and it's going to produce some very heavy rain,

01:25four to eight inches of rain just east of the point of landfall.

01:28There will even be some windswept rain and wind on the Gulf side of Mexico.

01:33But, again, it won't be an Atlantic storm.

01:35It's a Pacific storm that we're talking about.

01:38At this moment, we're calling it a tropical rainstorm.

01:40And there you can see we are facing an AccuWeather Real Impact Scale rating of one with this storm, most likely.

01:46So here's a quick look at the eyepath for this developing situation here.

01:49We'll be watching this rainstorm strengthen.