Hurricane Trudy has reached Category 1 strength roughly 300 miles off Acapulco and is forecast to become a major hurricane as it nears Mexico’s Pacific coast this weekend.
Authorities said Thursday that Trudy had intensified into a hurricane while moving toward Mexico’s Pacific coastline, the Associated Press reported from Miami.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center placed the storm about 300 miles (480 kilometers) southwest of Acapulco. Maximum sustained winds were listed at 75 mph (120 kph).
Trudy was moving northwest at 9 mph (15 kph). Forecasters said the system was on track to become a major hurricane on Friday and expected it to approach the coast of southwestern and west-central Mexico this weekend.
The National Hurricane Center’s forecast called for 4 to 8 inches (101 to 203 millimeters) of rain through the weekend across Mexico’s Colima and Jalisco states, along the Pacific side of the country.
No watches, warnings, evacuations, injuries, or damage reports were included in the account. The center’s information covered location, intensity, motion, and the rainfall outlook as the storm continued northwest.
Acapulco sits on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast. Colima and Jalisco lie farther northwest along that same shoreline, in the path zones tied to the weekend rain forecast.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami supplied the track and intensity details carried in the October 15, 2026 dispatch. Trudy stood as a Category 1 hurricane at the time of that report, with the Friday upgrade path and weekend coastal approach laid out in the same briefing material.
Category 1 marks the lower end of the hurricane scale. A “major hurricane” label in the forecast points to a stronger storm later in the period, based on the center’s outlook rather than conditions already measured at landfall.
Movement remained relatively slow at 9 mph. That pace, paired with the multi-day rain totals forecast for Colima and Jalisco, is the practical risk residents and local officials have to weigh while the system is still offshore.
Clear forecasts beat last-minute scramble. When a storm is still hundreds of miles out and already named a hurricane, the job is simple: heed the National Hurricane Center numbers, prepare for heavy rain, and skip the spin.
