Will Hurricane Rick affect the weather in the Miami area?”
HURRICANE Rick strengthened to an “extremely dangerous” storm overnight as it barrelled up Mexico’s Pacific coast, US forecasters said. The storm had maximum sustained winds nearly 240km/h and was expected to become a Category Five hurricane – the most powerful on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale – later today, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said. At 8am, Rick was about 1065km south-southeast of the resort town of Cabo San Lucas, continuing to gather strength as it headed west-northwest, parallel to Mexico’s southern coast. It was also around 470km south of Manzanillo, one of the largest ports in the Americas. Rick was moving near 24km/h, according to the Miami-based monitoring centre. The “extremely dangerous” storm was “still strengthening,” the centre said, although it cautioned the eye of the storm was expected to remain offshore of Mexico’s southern coast over the weekend. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Rick was exp
