Tropical Storm Flossie May Disrupt Cruises to Mexico This Week
If you’re cruising to Mexico within the next week, you’ll want to keep an eye out for weather-related updates from your cruise line.
As of Sunday, June 29, 2025, Tropical Storm Flossie has been developing off Mexico’s southwest coast, around 225 miles south of Acapulco.
But as the storm strengthens, it may impact cruise ships sailing around the Gulf of Mexico and to Mexico who will want to avoid the worst of the weather, although no itineraries have been tweaked just yet.
So far, the storm has reached maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour and is moving northwest at speeds of around nine miles per hour.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NOAA), the storm is expected to strengthen into a full fledged Category 1 or 2 hurricane by the night of Monday, June 30, 2025, or early on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
The storm system has thus far remained over the open ocean, but it is still expected to bring potentially life threatening rain, heavy winds, flooding, and mudslides to Mexico throughout the first half of the week.
“The outer bands of Tropical Storm Flossie may bring locally heavy rainfall to the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, and Jalisco through early this week,” reads NOAA’s Sunday afternoon update.
Most areas are expected to receive between three and six inches of rain, but there may be some regions that receive closer to ten inches.
“Life-threatening flooding and mudslides are possible, particularly in areas of steep terrain,” NOAA added.
A tropical storm watch is already in effect for southwestern Mexico from Zihuatanejo to Cabo Corrientes, and may be expanded to an additional portion of the coast of southern Mexico as soon as the night of Sunday, June 29.
Additionally, an unnamed low pressure disturbance that could impact Florida, which is home to some of the busiest cruise ports in the world, has around a 20% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next week.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Barry has formed on the other side of Mexico along the southeast coast, but is expected to fizzle out after making landfall sometime on the night of June 29.
What Cruise Ships may be impacted?
Assuming there is no shift in direction, the soon-to-be Hurricane Flossie will be blocking the way to three major cruise ports in Mexico, including Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas.
Cabo San Lucas has the busiest schedule, with both Carnival Panorama and Carnival Firenze expected to call on July 1, and July 3, respectively.
Carnival Panorama’s visit coincides with around the time when Flossie is supposed to officially be upgraded to hurricane status, making her voyage the most likely to change.
The Vista-class cruise ship is currently operating a 6-night Mexican Riviera sailing out of Long Beach, California, that embarked on June 29, 2025.
The itinerary only calls for stops at Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, so hopefully no changes will have to be made. But if they do, the crew will certainly keep the up to 4,008 passengers onboard updated.
The other major cruise ports situated in the Mexican Riviera are not expecting any ship calls this week, so there likely won’t be any issue there.
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However, this early storm is likely just a peek of the weather to come, as NOAA has predicted an active hurricane season.
The hurricane center is anticipating a 60% chance of seeing an above-normal number of storms, and as the experts, their predictions are usually right on the money.
But while this may sound ominous, rest assured that cruise ships are one of the safest places to be during a storm.
The bridge team is constantly monitoring the forecasts and weather patterns to keep their passengers and crew safe and comfortable.
Sometimes, it might even be blue skies at sea while it’s storming on land!
Tropical Storm Flossie May Disrupt Cruises to Mexico This Week