Hurricane Zeta makes landfall on Yucatan Peninsula

Clouds gather over Playa Gaviota Azul as Zeta approaches Cancun, Mexico, on Monday (Victor Ruiz Garcia/AP)

Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico late on Monday while lashing the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind.

The US National Hurricane Centre said Zeta came ashore just north of Tulum with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.