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Typhoon Bonnie weakens as it heads towards the vast Pacific Ocean

MEXICO CITY –

Hurricane Bonnie weakened Wednesday after becoming the first major Pacific winter storm off the coast of southern Mexico, although it did not pose a threat to land.

Bonnie has moved away from Mexico’s Pacific coast after it crossed Central America over the weekend as a tropical storm from the Caribbean and brought heavy rain, contributing to at least two deaths.

Forecasters said they expect the storm, briefly a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday, to continue west over the open sea and weaken into a tropical storm on Friday. But the US National Hurricane Center said Bonnie could cause severe waves over parts of Mexico’s southwest coast through Wednesday night.

Bonnie had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) late Wednesday, according to the storm’s center. It is centered 425 miles (685 km) south-southwest of the southernmost tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and is moving west at 15 mph (22 km/h).

The storm caused heavy flooding as it crossed Nicaragua, after making landfall as a tropical storm on the country’s Caribbean coast late Friday.

Two people died in separate events related to the floods, the Nicaraguan military said in a statement. It said Alberto Flores Landero, 40, died trying to cross the river Mati which was being washed away in Siuna, northeast of Nicaragua, and Juan Carlos Aleman, 38, died trying to help passengers from a plane the bus fell into the Ali Bethel River in the same area.

22: 50ET 06-07-22

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