So far, Hurricane Jova has been a non-event here in Puerto Vallarta. According to weather maps and forcasts we should be seeing heavy rains and winds up to 40 mph, but looking out my window this morning, the winds are dead calm and the rains have been nothing but a steady drizzle all night.
A look at Puerto Vallarta´s Malecon this morning, courtesy of PuertoVallarta.net´s webcam
News reports confirm that Hurricane Jova came onshore last night as a category 2 storm in the sparsely populated southern Jalisco and caused some flooding and downed power lines. The port town of Manzanillo has a lot of flooding and several roads are closed because of it, but so far (thankfully) no reports of injury or loss of life. Many coastal towns evacuated further inland last night and I’m sure we’ll see more reports of damage as these people return to their homes.
I am unaware of any damages here in Vallarta, and althought the storm still has not passed us, it does not look like we will see any major effects from this storm. Jova will come closest later this afternoon, but by then will probably have been downgraded to a tropical storm. The only worry we have left is that the rivers may rise due to heavy rains in the mountains and cause some localized flooding.