Hurricane Priscilla intensifying off southwest Mexico, over Pacific. Maps show forecast path.
The Hurricane Priscilla will become a more powerful storm this week as it continues to strengthen itself on the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South West of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center, based in Miami, said that the storm had to bring heavy rains and gusty winds in the region.
The Mexican government issued a tropical storm watch for Baja California on Monday morning, extending from Cabo San Lucas to Santa Fe. Another surveillance of the tropical storm was in force from Punta San Telmo to Punta Mita, Mexico.
The track and forecasts of the Priscilla Hurricane
On its forecasting track, Priscilla’s Center “should move off and parallel to the south-west coast of Mexico and Baja California on, from the early Mid-Milieu part of this week,” said the center of the hurricane in an opinion.
“An additional strengthening is planned, and Priscilla should become a category 2 hurricane and could tackle the status of major hurricane in the coming days,” he added. Priscilla will probably start to weaken in the middle of the week.
Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds at least 96 mph. The main categories of hurricane start at 3, with a minimum of sustained winds of 111 MPH.
Nikki Nolan / CBS News 
On Monday, the NHC CPA update, the storm was located about 205 miles in the south-south-west of Cabo Corrientes, near the seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta, and about 370 miles in the south-south-east of the southern tip of Baja California.
He traveled to the north-northwest to 6 mph with maximum winds supported by 85 mph.
Noaa / National Hurricane Center 
Although Priscilla should remain several hundred kilometers from the Mexican coast, heavy rains, tropical storm winds and swells are possible in the places where the storm must go on its way, said the meteorologist of CBS News Nikki Nolan.
Noaa / National Hurricane Center 
“Priscilla’s outdoor bands will continue to bring heavy rains to parts of the southwest Mexico today,” said the Hurricane center, with 2 to 4 inch expected and up to 6 inches in certain places, enough to “bring a sudden flood risk, especially in higher field zones”.
The swells generated by Priscilla began to affect certain parts of the southwest coast of Mexico and will go to parts of the center-west peninsula in the Mexican center and southern Baja California today, the warned center and the swells “are likely to cause current surfs and conditions,”.
