As we are entering the last 30 days of Mexico’s Official 2011 hurricane season and Hurricane Rina is just a memory the remnants of the weather from Rina and other systems continue to affect the resort areas of Cancun and the Riviera Maya.
Rain continues to pound Cancun, Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya as Cold Front 9 remains almost stationary over the northwest of the Yucatan.
The national weather service in Mexico is reporting that Cold Front #9 has become stationary over the western part of the Caribbean and is generating unstable weather with clouds and rain across the entire Yucatan Peninsula. This mass of air extends over the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern and central part of the country keeping temperatures below normal and bringing ice and freezing conditions to the north, central and eastern part of Mexico just like a Noreaster of “moderate” intensity with winds reaching as much as 40 mph / 60 kph around Istmo and the Gulf of Tehuatepec with elevated tides to 7 feet above normal along the south of the Gulf of Mexico, North and West of the Yucatan Peninsula.
A new cold front will begin to cross into Northern Mexico Wednesday November 2, 2011 and advance rapidly towards the Yucatan Peninsula bringing yes, you guessed it more clouds, winds and winter conditions again like a Noreaster with winds of up to 50 kph or 35 mph and should move into the area of the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday and towards the Yucatan Peninsula in time to ruin the weekend.
So, although the hurricane season is in her final stretch, conditions haven’t improved in the area.