A low-pressure area over southern Bay of Campeche has a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday.
_0">"Some development of this system is still possible over the next day or two while the low drifts generally northwestward toward eastern class="mandelbrot_refrag">Mexico," the Miami-based weather forecasters said.
This disturbance has potential to produce extremely heavy rains and life-threatening flash floods and mud slides over parts of southeastern class="mandelbrot_refrag">Mexico during the next few days, the NHC added.
(Reporting by Anupam Chatterjee in Bangalore. Editing by Andre Grenon)