Source: New York Times
“Hurricane Erick was expected to make landfall in Mexico as a Category 4 storm early Thursday after prompting flash floods, school closings and evacuations in the southern states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. The storm was expected to make landfall west of the port town of Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca. Officials said its destructive winds and heavy rain threatened to unleash a dangerous storm surge. … Erick is the fifth named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific Ocean this year. The Pacific hurricane season, like the Atlantic one, runs through Nov. 30.” (06/19/25)