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Hurricane Trudy is weakening off Mexico's Pacific coast

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Hurricane Trudy is pulling away from Mexico's Pacific coast, but the mess it left behind is only beginning to be cleaned up.

Trudy strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane on a Saturday as it moved toward Mexico's southwestern and west-central Pacific coast. The US National Hurricane Center reported maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) and placed the storm about 205 miles (330 km) south-southeast of Cabo Corrientes. A hurricane warning was in effect from Manzanillo in Colima state to Cabo Corrientes in Jalisco.

2026 Pacific hurricane season
2026 Pacific hurricane season Source

Forecasters expected Trudy to keep weakening through Sunday and into the early part of the week. The storm itself is retreating, but the cleanup and flood response it triggered across multiple Mexican states is just getting started. Specifics on flooding, casualties, and government response in the affected states are still coming into focus.

Trudy's rapid intensification drew comparisons to Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Patricia strengthened unexpectedly over warm Pacific waters before striking Jalisco, and it remains the last major hurricane to hit the region.

Before Trudy had a name, the National Hurricane Center gave a disturbance off the Mexican coast a 90% chance of becoming Tropical Storm Trudy, and warned it could strengthen significantly after that. Coverage of the system cited Colorado State University hurricane researcher Philip Klotzbach and forecaster Michael Corbosiero, who both pointed to a busy stretch of activity in the basin.

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Jalisco Source

Corbosiero described how the area has been producing storms one after another. "It seems like that area is just one after another," he said. "So I would not be surprised to have another storm." He also tied the activity to the season's climate pattern. "This year, because of the El Niño, we do have very favorable conditions," he said, adding that those conditions could persist "as long as there's some sort of the seeds either from the gyre or from remnant ends of cold fronts."

The Pacific hurricane region has set a record this season, a sign of how active the basin has become. For coastal communities in the path of these storms, one system often arrives before the last one is fully behind them, which makes recovery harder to finish and harder to plan.

What to watch next is the official picture of the damage. Updates on flooding, casualties, and statements from Mexican officials will show how far the cleanup still has to go. For now, Trudy is weakening and moving off the coast, while the recovery work in the affected states is the story that is still unfolding.