Hurricane Zeta closes in on resort zone of Mexico’s Yucatan

Cancun: Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, closed in on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind before an expected landfall in the middle of the night.
The US National Hurricane Center said Zeta had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph) late Monday when it was centred about 25 miles (40 kilometres) east of Tulum.
Quintana Roo state Gov. Carlos Joaqu n warned that nobody should be on the streets … you shouldn’t go out anymore until the hurricane passed.
Zeta was predicted to lose some power while crossing the peninsula, before regaining hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday while heading for the central US Gulf Coast and a likely landfall Wednesday night.
A hurricane watch was posted from Morgan City, La., to the Mississippi-Alabama state line.
In Playa del Carmen, between Tulum and Cancun, Mexican tourist Elsa M rquez held up her beach towel Monday so it flapped in the wind, rattling with the strong gusts Monday a few hours before Zeta’s arrival.