Hurricane Marie grows stronger in Mexican Pacific

Published August 26, 2014 4:12am ET



MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Marie weakened into a Category 3 storm, but continued to kick up high swells along Mexico’s northern Pacific coast and threatened to raise dangerous waves along the Southern California coast.

The U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami said that by late Monday night Marie had sustained winds of up to 115 mph (185 kph) and was located about 505 miles (815 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. It said the storm was moving northwest at 13 mph (20 kph).

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