As the Atlantic hurricane season stays relatively quiet, the Pacific has seen a steady run of noteworthy activity, with Trudy the 22nd named storm and the latest. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Category 2 storm held position about 160 km southwest of Mexico's coast, keeping most of the severe weather offshore.
Even so, the NHC placed coastal areas of Jalisco, Michoacán and Colima under a hurricane warning, forecasting sustained winds of 95–145 km/h on Sunday. Rainfall in those areas could reach 100–150 mm, bringing the risk of flooding and landslides. The warnings also covered the potential for dangerous storm surge and large, damaging waves along windward stretches of Mexico's southwestern coast.
By Monday morning, Trudy had weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm, and the coastal warnings were lifted.
Meanwhile, in Greece, heavy rain and thunderstorms last week caused severe flooding and killed one person on the islands of Rhodes, Evia and the Sporades. According to the National Observatory of Athens, a monitoring station on Rhodes recorded 202 mm of rain between 03:30 and 09:50 UTC on October 14. Local authorities said more than 30 rescue and evacuation operations were mounted in response to the flooding, while the Greek coast guard reported that four passenger vehicles were swept out to sea in the storm. On the island of Skiathos, floodwaters also carried away two cars.
Earlier, Turkey recorded five deaths from severe flooding in Istanbul last week. Heavy rain on October 14 and 15 forced many schools to close and disrupted flights, causing flooding and landslides across numerous provinces. According to the Istanbul metropolitan authority, rainfall measured in Beykoz, a district of Istanbul province, reached 242 mm. Nearly 600 people were rescued after becoming trapped, and at least 2,700 people were evacuated from their homes.
Turkey's state meteorological agency continued to issue warnings of heavy rain and thunderstorms for the weekend across dozens of provinces, forecasting at least 40–60 mm of additional rain in some areas of the Marmara region and the western Black Sea.
