How is Hurricane Rick making weather in the Miami area worse?”
Miami, FL (AHN) – Hurricane Rick became the seventh hurricane of the Eastern North Pacific season when winds in the storm reached 75 miles per hour Friday. The storm is located about 290 miles (470km) south of Acapulco, Mexico. The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to continue moving west at 9 mph (15km/hr) over the next several days. According to an advisory statement from the NHC, hurricane-force winds extend up to 35 miles (55km) from the center of the storm, with tropical-storm force winds extending out to 70 miles (110km). The NHC warns outer rain bands may impact the southeastern coast of Mexico as early as today.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Rick remains an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 storm well off Mexico’s Pacific coastline. The Miami-based center said Rick continues to pack winds near 180 mph (285 kph) and is churning up potentially dangerous surf. At 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) Sunday, the center was about 555 miles (890 km) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The center says Rick was moving toward the west-northwest at about 14 mph (22 kph) and was expected to turn toward the northwest over the coming 48 hours. Miami forecasters say hurricane-force winds extend outward from Rick’s eye up to 60 miles (95 km) and large swells kicked up by Rick would continue to pummel Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast over the next few days.
