Hurricane Dean raced through Mexico’s southern Gulf on Wednesday, whipping up wild winds and roaring seas around oil platforms that produce crude for export to the United States. Dean hammered Mexico’s Caribbean resort of Tulum and swallowed sand from the famous beach at Cancun before crossing the Yucatan Peninsula out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane John punished Mexican ports and beaches with huge sea surges, heavy rains and strong winds on Thursday morning as the powerful storm swirled in the Pacific Ocean off the coast. The dangerous category three hurricane may dump up to 0,2m of rain, causing landslides or flooding and had maximum sustained winds approaching 205kph.