Hurricane Trudy continued to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to southwestern and west-central Mexico on Sunday, with forecasters warning that the storm could cause life-threatening flooding and mudslides in areas with steep terrain.
At 8 a.m. MST Sunday, Trudy had maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour and was centered about 115 miles southwest of Cabo Corrientes and 165 miles west of Manzanillo, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The hurricane was moving northwest at 8 mph.
“Trudy is expected to produce an additional 2 to 6 inches with isolated storm totals around 12 inches along and near the southwest Mexican coast in Jalisco,” the NHC said in a Sunday advisory. “This rainfall may produce life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in areas along steep terrain.”
Trudy’s center was forecast to begin moving away from mainland Mexico on Sunday afternoon, but its rain, winds and coastal hazards were expected to continue affecting parts of the country.
The NHC warned that a “dangerous storm surge accompanied by damaging waves” was likely where winds were blowing onshore within the warning areas. Swells generated by the hurricane were also expected to cause “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions” along portions of southwestern and west-central Mexico.
Hurricane-force winds extended up to 30 miles from the center, while tropical-storm-force winds extended up to 105 miles, according to the advisory.
Mexico’s Navy said in an X post in Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas and Puerto Escondido were closed to all navigation because of Trudy, while several other ports were closed to small vessels.
Officials urged the maritime community and coastal residents to take “extreme precautions” because of high surf, intense rain and the risk of swollen rivers, flooding and landslides in vulnerable areas.
The stark contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific Hurricanes season of 2026 comes amid El Niño, which can suppress Atlantic hurricanes through increased wind shear while generally favoring tropical cyclone activity in the eastern Pacific.
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Threats to Mexico
A tropical storm warning was in effect from Playa Perula to San Blas and for Las Islas Marías. The Mexican government downgraded the hurricane warning between Playa Perula and Cabo Corrientes and discontinued all warnings south of Playa Perula, the NHC said.
The warning meant tropical-storm conditions were expected somewhere within the affected area within 12 hours. The NHC said those conditions were expected along the warned portion of mainland Mexico Sunday morning and in Las Islas Marías during the afternoon.
In addition to the heaviest rainfall forecast for Jalisco, Trudy’s outer bands were expected to produce another 1 to 2 inches of rain, with isolated totals near 4 inches, along the coast in northern Colima and southern Nayarit. The agency said that rainfall “may result in localized flash flooding, especially in areas along steep terrain.”
Trudy was forecast to turn west-northwest Sunday night and pass south of Baja California Sur on Monday and Tuesday. “Rapid weakening is expected to begin tonight, and Trudy could degenerate to a post-tropical low by Tuesday night,” the NHC said.
Active Pacific Season While Atlantic Remains Quiet
Trudy was the only active tropical cyclone listed by the NHC across the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific basins on Sunday morning.
The agency said there were “no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic at this time,” while advisories remained active for Trudy in the eastern Pacific.
Further Pacific development was possible, the NHC said, noting that an area of low pressure was forecast to form well offshore of southern Mexico within a couple of days, and a tropical depression likely to develop around the middle of the week as the system moved west to west-northwest, well south of the country. The agency placed its seven-day development probability at 80 percent.
While Trudy threatens Mexico in the eastern Pacific, the Atlantic has experienced an unusually quiet hurricane season even after passing through its climatological peak. September 10 typically marks the peak of Atlantic hurricane activity, but only one of the basin’s nine named storms in 2026, Isaias, has strengthened into a hurricane through October 18, according to the NHC.
NHC data showed the season running five hurricanes below the 1991-2020 normal and its accumulated cyclone energy, or ACE, 83 percent below normal, underscoring how unusually limited Atlantic hurricane activity has been this year.
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