{"id":44217,"date":"2025-07-01T05:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44217"},"modified":"2025-07-01T05:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:40:27","slug":"flossie-becomes-a-hurricane-off-mexicos-pacific-coast-after-rapidly-strengthening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44217","title":{"rendered":"Flossie becomes a hurricane off Mexico&#8217;s Pacific coast after rapidly strengthening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">MEXICO CITY \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/storms\/tropical-depression-dumps-rain-eastern-mexico-tropical-storm-flossie-b-rcna215882\">Flossie<\/a>&nbsp;has strengthened into a hurricane off Mexico&#8217;s southwestern Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Flossie became a Category 1 hurricane Monday night and has maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The hurricane center said Flossie was about 174 miles south of Manzanillo and was moving west-northwest off the Mexican coast at 10 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Flossie was expected to skirt the coast for a few days while dropping rain on several Mexican states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mexico&#8217;s government earlier issued a tropical storm warning along the southwestern coast from Punta San Telmo to Playa Perula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A tropical storm watch remained in effect for other areas on the southwest coast from Zihuatanejo to Cabo Corrientes. A watch means tropical storm conditions are possible in the area within two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">While its center is forecast to remain offshore, rainfall up to 6 inches was likely for parts of the Mexican states of Guerrero, Michoac\u00e1n, Colima, and Jalisco into Wednesday, with the possibility of life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in steep terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Flossie is forecast to strengthen over the next 36 hours before weakening over cooler waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/hurricanes\/flossie-becomes-hurricane-mexicos-pacific-coast-rapidly-strengthening-rcna216149\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY \u2014&nbsp;Flossie&nbsp;has strengthened into a hurricane off Mexico&#8217;s southwestern Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Flossie became a Category 1 hurricane Monday night and has maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. The hurricane center said Flossie was about 174 miles south of Manzanillo and was moving west-northwest off the Mexican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[33809,21395,1638],"class_list":["post-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-flossie","tag-hurricane","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44219,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions\/44219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}