TROPICAL STORM alex 2010 killed 10 people in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador in the Central America’s Pacific coast. The storm reached the Yucatan Peninsula with winds of 75 km per hour. The hurricane has caused heavy floods and mudslides.
Tropical Storm Alex is disrupting oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. It has also stopped BP’s clean-up efforts in the Gulf. Florida gas prices have increased by a penny/gallon this past week. According to the US National Hurricane Center in Miami, Alex is expected to strengthen even further.The 2010 Hurricane Alex is formed from the destructive Tropical Strom Alex and it is slowly making its way across Central America, generate anxiety for citizens in several countries including Mexico and the US.
Alex is not as secure to being a danger to BP as earlier thought. The storm weakened after it made land-fall in Belize. The Tropical Storm Alex is the 1st named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. It had nonstop winds of almost 40 miles per hour and was located 1st concerning 55 miles southwest of Chetumal in Mexico.The storm is moving at 13 miles per hour and will certainly cause heavy rain in Mexico. The rain will scatter to surrounding areas during the weekend.