Overview
- Simon remained just offshore on Monday as a dangerous hurricane with sustained winds near 115 mph and a slow northwest drift that kept its strongest impacts close to the coast.
- Heavy rain and coastal flooding have inundated towns such as Manzanillo, with residents and military personnel helping with clean-up and at least one death confirmed after a retaining wall collapsed in Guerrero.
- Mexican authorities placed dozens of municipalities on high alert, opened emergency shelters, ordered precautionary evacuations and suspended nonessential activities while temporarily closing major airports including Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo.
- The U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasts Simon to linger near the coast for days before a likely turn northeast that could bring the storm inland around midweek, but officials say the precise track and timing remain uncertain.
- The storm comes during an unusually active, El Niño‑fueled Pacific season that has strained disaster resources, disrupted tourism and raised the risk that slow motion and steep coastal terrain will produce life‑threatening flash floods and landslides.