MIAMI — Hurricane Trudy began weakening rapidly Sunday (Oct 18) after it lashed parts of Mexico's Pacific coast with rain and winds.
The Category 1 storm had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph) and was moving northwest at 11 kmh, according to the US National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Trudy was moving away from the coast and its centre was forecast to pass south of the Baja California Peninsula on Monday and Tuesday.
Some further rainfall was possible in the region where the ground has been saturated by successive storms.
Meanwhile, Typhoon Champi has moved from the western Pacific into the Philippine Sea. It had maximum sustained winds of 175 kmh by midday Monday Asia time and was not near land.
Champi earlier passed close to Guam, and the governors of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands requested emergency disaster declarations Friday.
US President Donald Trump approved the emergency declaration for Guam. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said federal assistance was available for the territory to supplement local response efforts.
Airports, harbours and some health facilities in the territories were closed. Relief supplies were unlikely to reach the islands for three to five days, FEMA said Saturday.
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