MIAMI — Trudy strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moved toward Mexico’s southwestern and west-central Pacific coast on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
\n\nA hurricane warning was in effect from Manzanillo in Colima state to Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco. The latest NHC data showed the Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph and was about 175 miles south of Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco state and 100 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, moving northwest at 10 mph.
\n\nMeanwhile, Typhoon Champi strengthened into a Category 4 Super Typhoon as it moved past Guam.
\n\nTrudy’s center was expected to approach the Mexican coast on Saturday and pass near it into Sunday. After the latest warning, Mexico’s government issued a tropical storm warning for Las Islas Marias and discontinued a similar warning for its coast south of Lazaro Cardenas.
\n\nThe Mexican navy urged mariners and coastal residents to exercise extreme caution because of high waves, heavy rain and the risk of rising rivers, flooding and landslides in vulnerable areas.
\n\nColima authorities said the risks remained low, but warned that heavy rainfall could cause damage because the ground was already saturated by successive storms along the Pacific coast.
\n\nTrudy…
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