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MEXICO ISSUES A HURRICANE WARNING FROM MANZANILLO TO PLAYA PERULA AS MAJOR HURRICANE TRUDY APPROACHES
At 11 AM EDT Friday, NHC had Trudy at 120 mph, about 235 miles southwest of Acapulco and moving north-northwest at 5 mph. Hurricane conditions are expected in the warning area by late Saturday or Saturday night.
Earth systems
- SWPC keeps a K4 geomagnetic warning running for a second day; no storm in progress
- Two strong quakes, M6.7 and M6.8, hit the central Mid-Atlantic Ridge seven hours apart
- Isaias is gone: the hurricane peaked at 120 mph, came ashore in the western Florida Panhandle, and dissipated over the Appalachians
- El Niño: NOAA raises the odds of the strongest event since 1950 to 83% for October to December
Wire
- Tropical Storm Simon weakens to 40 mph off Mexico and is expected to become a remnant low within a day or so
- South Korea halts its stock market for 20 minutes after the KOSPI falls 8%
- Russia hits Kyiv with ballistic missiles overnight, striking an apartment block and all three city heat and power plants; five dead
- Panama's M7.7 quake: 2,164 families affected, 506 lost their homes, no deaths, and aftershocks that could run for weeks
- Saudi coalition strikes Houthi fuel depots; Saudi Energy Ministry says an Aramco building in Dhahran was hit
- Tropical Storm Rachel, now 70 mph, is forecast to turn toward northern Baja California and Southern California this weekend