Cristobal weakened to a depression with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph as it continued to crawl across southern Mexico unleashing flooding rainfall on Thursday morning. AccuWeather forecasters expect the system to strengthen again over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before striking the upper Gulf coast of the United States late Sunday to early Monday.
The government in Mexico discontinued all tropical storm warnings that were in effect from Campeche to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, as of 10 a.m. CDT Thursday. The dangers of life-threatening flooding and mudslides will persist into Friday. Cristobal, which stalled over southeastern Mexico as predicted, dumped 14 inches of rain in some areas as of early Thursday.
The storm will begin to move northward Thursday night into Friday, eventually emerging into the Gulf of Mexico.
“We are forecasting Cristobal to make landfall over the central coast of Louisiana late Sunday or Sunday evening,” Meteorologist said.
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