Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Hurricane Blanca rapidly weakens, good news for Baja

Hurricane Blanca became the second named storm of the season, and the earliest Category-4 on record, but the energy just wasn’t available to sustain strength.

Just 24-hours earlier, forecasts had predicted Hurricane Blanca to strengthen to a category-5 and make landfall as a major hurricane along the Baja Peninsula. Mother nature had other plans as Blanca weakened rapidly this morning.

On Thursday morning at 10 AM the storm was downgraded to a Category-2. The storm is making a slow turn east and is expected to make landfall along the Baja Peninsula with the possibility of . . .

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