Pacific
Hurricane Trudy is 170 miles south of Manzanillo.
At 9 a.m. Central time the storm was a Category 1, with winds of 90 miles an hour. A hurricane warning runs from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes. The center was still offshore.
The Rocket News · Mexico Desk · MiamiOctober 17, 2026 · 3 min read
MIAMI — Hurricane Trudy was 170 miles south of Manzanillo at 9 a.m. Central time on Saturday, a Category 1 storm with maximum winds of 90 miles an hour, the National Hurricane Center said in its 9 a.m. advisory. The center was near latitude 16.6 north, longitude 103.9 west, about 265 miles west of Acapulco. It was moving northwest at 10 miles an hour. The minimum pressure was 979 millibars. The Associated Press has been filing the storm as it moves toward the Pacific coast.
A hurricane warning is in effect from Manzanillo north to Cabo Corrientes. A hurricane watch runs from south of Manzanillo to Punta San Telmo. A tropical-storm warning covers the coast from south of Manzanillo to Zihuatanejo, and from north of Cabo Corrientes to San Blas. Las Islas Marías are under a tropical-storm watch. On the forecast track the center will approach southwestern and west-central Mexico today and pass near the coast tonight into Sunday. Some strengthening is possible today. Weakening is expected to begin on Sunday. The storm had not come ashore when this desk closed.
The center of Trudy will approach the coast of southwestern and west-central Mexico today.
The photograph is the storm from a satellite, the spiral still over the Pacific, the Mexican coast at the top of the frame. It is not a street in Manzanillo. The center was still offshore.
Wire and further reading: nhc.noaa.gov
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