Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico's Baja California on Saturday amid warnings of 'catastrophic and life-threatening flooding' for the peninsula and for the southwestern United States, where it is forecast to make land as a tropical storm on Sunday.
Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico's Baja California on Saturday amid warnings of "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding" for the peninsula and for the southwestern United States, where it is forecast to make land as a tropical storm on Sunday.The Associated PressMembers of the Mexican Navy patrol the Medano beach before the arrival of Hurricane Hilary at Los Cabos resort in Baja California state, Mexico, on Friday.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm watch for a wide swath of southern California, from the Pacific Coast to interior mountains and deserts. Officials talked of evacuation plans for California's Catalina Island. The latest forecast track pointed to Hilary making landfall along a sparsely populated area of the Baja peninsula about 330 kilometres south of the port city of Ensenada.
"We are a vulnerable city, being on one of the most visited borders in the world and because of our landscape," she said.The National Park Service closed Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve to keep people from becoming stranded amid flooding. Cities across the region, including in Arizona, were offering sandbags to safeguard properties against floodwaters.
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