(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandra, the strongest storm to develop in the eastern Pacific this late in the year, threatens to strike Mexico over the weekend and pump moisture into the southern U.S. during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period.
Sandra’s top winds reached 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour Wednesday and were forecast to climb to 120 by Thursday, making it a Category 3 system on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Sandra was about 560 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.
“It continues the trend of record-setting events in the Pacific,” said Eric Leister, a meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
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