Mexican emergency officials were rushing to finish preparations on Saturday as Hurricane Roslyn, a powerful Category 4 storm, churned toward tourist zones along the country's Pacific coast with expected landfall by morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Roslyn was forecast to move north on Saturday as it approached west-central Mexico before making landfall along the coast of Nayarit state on Sunday morning, bringing damaging winds, a major storm surge and significant coastal flooding, the NHC said.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMaximum sustained winds were near 130 mph , and rainfall of up to 10 inches was expected along the northern coast of Jalisco state, which neighbors Nayarit.
A video posted on Twitter by Mexico's civil protection agency showed violent swells crashing into a beach in Nayarit, with a warning to stay out of the water.