{"id":307220,"date":"2026-10-15T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307220\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:40:14","slug":"trudy-strengthens-to-a-hurricane-as-system-nears-mexicos-coast-with-major-storm-expected-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307220\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudy strengthens to a hurricane as system nears Mexico\u2019s coast with major storm expected | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Trudy intensified into a Category 1 hurricane as it approached the Pacific coast of Mexico, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Trudy was located about 300 miles (480 kilometers) southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane was moving northwest at 9 mph (15 kph) and was expected to approach the coast of southwestern and west-central Mexico this weekend, the center said.<\/p>\n<p>Trudy was on track to become a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-hurricane-causes-facts-0656324870cb2032e267e65546e04c93\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major hurricane<\/a> on Friday, bringing rainfall of 4 to 8 inches (101 to 203 millimeters) through the weekend across Colima and Jalisco states, the center said.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Trudy intensified into a Category 1 hurricane as it approached the Pacific coast of Mexico,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,5535,38,125976,93458,6592,1133,301],"class_list":["post-307220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-general-news","tag-hurricane-trudy-mexico-pacific","tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","tag-storms","tag-weather","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}