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Cooking Culinary Adventure: inspired by Halifax's Seaport Market | SaltWire #cooking #cookingshortsMEXICO CITY - Hurricane Norma weakened to a Category 2 storm on Saturday as it approached the south of Mexico's Baja California peninsula where it was expected to make landfall later in the day, bringing with it a"dangerous storm surge."
The center of Norma was located about 45 kilometers west-southwest of the popular tourist destination of Cabo San Lucas, moving northwards at a speed of 13 kilometers per hour, and packing maximum sustained winds of 155 kilometers per hour, the U.S National Hurricane Center said in its latest report.
Mexican authorities called on residents of the state of Baja California Sur to take precautions and stay in their homes, while shelters were set up. "Norma is expected to remain a hurricane while it moves over the southern portion of Baja California Sur," the NHC said, noting nonetheless that further weakening was expected over the weekend.
Local authorities maintained a"prevention zone" between the towns of Todos Santos and Los Barriles, in the state of Baja California Sur."Precipitation could come with electric shocks and generate landslides, increased levels of rivers and streams, overflows and floods," a government meteorological report indicated on Saturday.
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