Pacific Season’s First Hurricane Makes Landfall in Mexico

Hurricane Agatha off the Pacific coast of Oaxaca state, Mexico, on May 30, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET, in a satellite image. NOAA via AP

MEXICO CITY—Agatha, the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific, swept ashore on a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns in southern Mexico on Monday.

Torrential rains and howling winds whipped palm trees and drove tourists and residents into shelters.