Hurricane Blanca won’t give up, recovers category-4 status

Hurricane Blanca intensified off the Pacific Coast of Mexico on Saturday and has been upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane packing 130 mph winds, forecasters said.

A new Tropical Storm Warning was issued for the coast from La Paz to Santa Fe, including Cabo San Lucas, and a Hurricane Watch is in effect from Cabo San Lucas to Santa Fe, the National Hurricane Center said in an overnight update.

An earlier update said Blanca had become a "major hurricane" again.

The severe storm is expected to dump 6 to 10 inches of rain on much of Baja California Sur and . . .