MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Kay gained strength in the Pacific Wednesday and began lashing Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, where authorities prepared by opening shelters and closing some roads.
Forecasters said there’s a chance outer bands of the big storm could bring heavy rain — and possibly flash floods — to parts of scorched Southern California and southwestern Arizona Friday night and Saturday.
Kay’s maximum sustained winds rose to 105 mph , with forecasters saying it could brush the mid portion of the peninsula Thursday or Friday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Kay was centered about 210 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja peninsula. Kay was moving north-northwest at 12 mph .
A hurricane warning was issued for a sparsely populated stretch of the peninsula around Bahia Asuncion and the state government of Baja California Sur announced it was opening shelters for people who need to evacuate. It said some creeks were already rising and closed some roads.Forecasters expected Kay to stay offshore as it moves more northward, roughly parallel to the coast, it was an expansive storm, with tropical storm-force winds extending up to 230 miles from the center.
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