In pics: Hurricane Agatha wrecks havoc in Mexico, at least 11 dead, 20 missing

This RAMMB National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite handout image shows Hurricane Agatha over Mexico on May 31, 2022.

Agatha made history as the strongest hurricane ever recorded to come ashore in May during the eastern Pacific hurricane season.

It was a strong Category 2 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, but it quickly lost power moving inland over the mountainous interior. Remnants of Agatha were moving northeast on Tuesday into Veracruz state.

Rain falls during the arrival of Hurricane Agatha in Huatulco, Oaxaca State, Mexico on May 30, 2022. Hurricane Agatha, the first of the season, made landfall Monday near a string of beach resorts on Mexico's Pacific Coast, where residents and tourists hunkered down in storm shelters.

Municipal police officers patrol as rain falls during the arrival of Hurricane Agatha in Huatulco, Oaxaca State, Mexico on May 30, 2022. The storm scripted history, becoming the strongest May hurricane to make landfall on Mexico's west coast since documentation began in earnest in 1949.

Palm trees blow in the wind before Hurricane Agatha makes landfall in Huatulco, Oaxaca State, Mexico on May 30, 2022. Mexico is regularly lashed by tropical storms on both its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, generally between the months of May and November.

View of the sea before Hurricane Agatha makes landfall in Huatulco, Oaxaca State, Mexico on May 30, 2022. Last week, forecasters with the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted the seventh consecutive year of record-shattering Atlantic hurricanes, estimating 14 to 21 named storms, six to 10 of which will become hurricanes. They estimated three to six of those would develop into major hurricanes.

Scientists have blamed rising ocean temperatures, the result of climate change, on the increase in the regularity and severity of storms.

"Right now we're at around 20 people missing, most of them are in the upper mountains," Oaxaca state governor Alejandro Murat told Radio Formula, adding that those "who lost their lives were unfortunately preliminarily reported by local authorities."

"When Agatha made landfall, the day ended without any loss of human life, but heavy rains that occurred early Tuesday morning caused rivers to burst their banks and landslides," Murat said earlier in the day.