Overview

• Late on August 1 the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional confirmed Gil’s upgrade to a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of about 120 km/h roughly 1,740 km west-southwest of Cabo San Lucas
• The storm is tracking west-northwest at approximately 31 km/h, moving farther offshore and posing no direct risk to Mexico’s coastline
• Gil’s outer bands are forecast to trigger heavy rainfall and thunderstorms across Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Durango, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Jalisco and Colima
• Models indicate Hurricane Gil will hold Category 1 strength into August 2 before weakening back to a tropical storm and dissipating by August 5
• Gil marks the seventh named storm and the fourth hurricane of the 2025 Pacific hurricane season