At 3:00 am CDT on Sunday, slow-moving Hurricane Orlene evolved into a Category 4 hurricane located 195 km south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, and moving north at 7 km/h. A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the Pacific coast of Mexico from San Blas to Mazatlan. A Hurricane Watch is in effect from Playa Perula to San Blas.
At 10:00 am CDT, Tropical Storm Orlene evolved into a Category 1 hurricane located 340 km south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, and moving north at 7 km/h. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Pacific coast from Playa Perula to San Blas. Orlene is expected to pass just west of Puerto Vallarta from 7 pm Sunday to 7 am Monday.
As of 4:00 pm on Friday, September 30, Tropical Storm Orlene was displaying maximum sustained winds of 100 km/h and was located 445 km south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco. It is expected to strengthen to a category 1 hurricane early Saturday morning as it approaches the Mexican coast and continues to move northwestward.
Wyndham is opening another new all-inclusive resort in Mexico. The Wyndham Alltra Riviera Nayarit resort, which is scheduled to open on October 10, 2022, has 229 rooms in a family-friendly beachfront setting on Mexico’s Pacific coast, just north of Puerto Vallarta.
During the 2022 summer vacation period, which included July and August, the State of Jalisco received more than 12 billion pesos in revenue and approximately 5.7 million visitors. Jalisco’s premier beach destination, Puerto Vallarta, welcomed approximately 1 million visitors and revenues of 6,629,000 pesos.
Puerto Vallarta Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez recently held a public meeting with SETAC (Solidaridad Ed Thomas A.C.) staff, with whom he initiated a work plan to open a Sexual Diversity Office in Lázaro Cárdenas park, where there is already a permanent information booth for the LGBT Community.
Another earthquake of 5.8 magnitude struck in the central region of the Mexican Pacific at 3:17 this morning. This time, the quake's epicenter was off the coast of Colima, in the municipality of Tecomán. The aftershock shook the Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas region. Many citizens felt the earth tremble despite the early hour.
Residents and tourists were 'shaken up' on Monday afternoon after an earthquake 59 km south of Coalcomán, Michoacán, shook Puerto Vallarta. Ironically, this happened less than an hour after the city participated in a national earthquake drill commemorating the September 19 quakes in Mexico City (1985) and Puebla (2017).
During his first year in office, Puerto Vallarta Mayor Professor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez validated the priority of his environmental policy through various programs of the municipal government, among which the Certified Clean Beaches and the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles stand out.
On Monday, the Puerto Vallarta Road Subdirectorate's Lieutenant Pedro García Maldonado announced that there will be road closures in El Centro, as well as changes to circulation on some streets in the downtown area, September 14 through 16 as the city celebrates Mexico's Independence from Spain.
