Tropical Storm Dalila to weaken
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The eastern Pacific Ocean has spawned a new tropical storm, Dalila, which will swipe southern Mexico with flooding downpours and gusty winds.
The National Hurricane Center said Monday morning, June 16 a tropical disturbance in the Pacific could soon strengthen into a tropical depression.
A typhoon changed its path and landed in southern China's Hainan island at a severe tropical storm level. Its maximum sustained winds is 30 meters (98 feet) per second.
Wutip was a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tonkin Friday evening China Standard Time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. The tropical storm had sustained wind speeds of 69 miles per hour.
National Hurricane Center forecasters on June 8 said tropical activity in the Atlantic, Caribbean or Gulf of America is unlikely for now.
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