Hurricane Rick heads toward Mexico's Pacific coast

MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Rick headed for Mexico’s confederate Pacific seashore Sunday and is forecast to scope onshore by Monday.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick had winds arsenic precocious arsenic 85 miles per hr ( 140 kph) and was expected to deed determination astir the seaport of Lazaro Cardenas and the edifice of Zihuatanejo by Monday.

The hurricane was located astir 130 miles (210 kilometers) south-southwest of Zihuatanejo. Rick was moving northbound astatine 3 mph (6 kph).

Some strengthening was expected and Rick could make winds arsenic precocious arsenic 100 miles per hr (160 kph).

The halfway warned Rick could nutrient flash flooding and mudslides. The seashore has mountainous terrain that successful the past has been precise susceptible to flash flooding and mudslides.

A hurricane informing was successful effect for points westbound of Acapulco each on the seashore to Punta San Telmo.

“During its transition implicit land, it volition origin aggravated to torrential rains and imaginable mudslides and flooding, arsenic good arsenic rising levels successful streams and rivers, successful the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco,” Mexico’s National Water Commission said successful a statement.