MEXICO CITY—Hurricane Bonnie strengthened while moving roughly parallel to Mexico’s Pacific coast Monday, after crossing over Central America from the Caribbean and dropping heavy rain and contributing to two deaths.
Forecasters said they expected the hurricane, now a Category 2 storm, to pose no threat to land as it headed generally westward farther into the Pacific.
Bonnie had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph) late Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. It was centered 220 miles (355 kilometers) south of the Mexican resort town of Zihuatanejo and moving west-northwest at 16 mph (26 kph).
The storm left heavy flooding after crossing sodden Nicaragua over the weekend after making landfall as a tropical storm on the country’s Caribbean coast late Friday….