Echelle de Saffir-Simpson et statistiques des ouragans tropicaux touchant terre

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" Mexico is particularly vulnerable to tropical storms of both Atlantic and Pacific oceans. During the 1951-2000 period hurricanes making landfall on the country's coasts amounted to 9% and 18% of all hurricanes activity on the Atlantic and notheastern Pacific, respectively. " (p. 203)

Climatology of landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms in Mexico, Ernesto Jauregui Ostos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2003