Hurricane Flossie forms in Eastern Pacific as Mexico faces threats of flooding rain, mudslides

Hurricane Flossie formed disconnected the southwestern seashore of Mexico precocious Monday night, and section officials are asking residents to prepare for flooding and life-threatening mudslides arsenic the tempest continues connected its travel crossed the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Flossie became the sixth named tempest of the 2025 Eastern Pacific hurricane play connected Sunday erstwhile it gained spot and became a tropical storm – 1 measurement up from a tropical depression.

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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said maximum sustained winds wrong Flossie person accrued to 80 mph, officially designating it arsenic a hurricane.

Once a tropical storm's winds scope 74 mph, it's called a hurricane and maintains the aforesaid sanction it had erstwhile it was a tropical storm.

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The NHC said that Flossie is presently located astir 175 miles southbound of Manzanillo, Mexico, and is moving disconnected to the west-northwest astatine 10 mph.

The Eastern Pacific hurricane play runs from May 15 to Nov. 30.