Storm Chaser Aaron Rigsby was live from Tulum, Mexico, where conditions were still nice as people prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl.
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00:00conditions are quite nice. Explain what you're seeing in terms of the surf and
00:03the overall conditions.
00:06Yeah, absolutely. Good evening. And yeah, pretty much today is like a
00:09normal beach to everybody. The sun is shining. It's hot and humid outside.
00:13There's even some folks behind me playing in the beach enjoying the nice
00:16weather before things start to get rough here in the next couple of days.
00:18Now over further north to Cancun didn't see too much, at least this morning. As
00:23far as preparations go, I think they're thinking it's gonna slide a little bit
00:26south of there. But those cities such as to own play a day. Carmen, we
00:30actually saw a bunch of people starting to board up their windows. They were
00:34taking those preparations, moving a lot of those loose items off of their
00:37porches off of those businesses so they don't get blown around during the
00:41hurricane. And it's been the same story here in saloon. And I expect that to
00:44continue into tomorrow and into tomorrow evening. Now, I haven't heard
00:48anywhere from, you know, any sources that there's any kind of evacuation
00:52orders going on right now. This is a very high touristy spot, and I had a
00:55lot of people coming down here on vacation, whether it be for weddings or
00:58their family vacation that are probably gonna have to look into alternative
01:02plans here in the next couple of days going into Friday. Aaron, has there
01:05been like a sense of urgency again with people getting again, packing up,
01:11perhaps adventuring inland or perhaps taking their plans elsewhere that
01:14you've seen?
01:17Not as of yet. You know, today it's been a relatively normal day. There's
01:20been a fair amount of traffic. There hasn't really been an increase of
01:24people and supply shortages on those shelves like we typically see in the
01:28U. S. The sense of urgency today really doesn't seem to be that high, but it's
01:32one of those things where I've noticed before covering these hurricanes is a
01:35lot of times people will wait until the last second to move inland and make
01:39those alternative plans. So I suspect tomorrow is gonna be a little bit
01:42different of a story, especially carrying on into Thursday night and
01:46into Friday morning. I would expect to see a lot less people on the roadways
01:49and definitely a lot more closures of these beaches. And speaking of plans,
01:53Aaron, what is your plan in terms of a barrel? Are you gonna stay into Tulum?
01:57Are you gonna trek your way north or south?
02:01Yeah, so I've been spending the day pretty much scouting out this entire
02:03coastline. There's a lot of uncertainties on where barrel is
02:06actually going to make landfall here and actually within the last couple
02:09hours, despite all the wind shear that we've been talking about and hitting on,
02:13it appears that barrel is actually gaining some strength and gaining some
02:16northern latitude. So as far as long term effects, especially when it gets
02:20into Mexico, we may have to adjust our plans a little bit further north to
02:24play it at Carmen. So right now we're gonna be staying in Tulum and then
02:27we're gonna be keeping a very close eye on that track into tomorrow. But the
02:30goal right now is to ride it out here into loom if it takes that southern
02:34track and we got a few more places highlighted up to the north. All right,
02:38to Aaron Rigsby. Thanks again for joining us. Hey, enjoy that sunshine
02:42and the surf before those conditions really start to change up down the
02:45road.