Hurricane Grace gathers strength, barrels toward Mexico's Gulf coast
India TodayHurricane Grace rapidly intensified into a major hurricane on Friday night as it barrelled towards Mexico's Gulf coast, threatening to lash the oil-producing state of Veracruz and central Mexico with strong winds and heavy rains. By Friday night, Grace was blowing maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour, with higher gusts, making it "a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale," the National Hurricane Center said. Through Sunday, the NHC said Grace would dump 6 to 12 inches of rain over large swaths of eastern and central Mexico, and up to 18 inches in some areas. Grace pounded Mexico's Caribbean coast on Thursday, downing trees and causing power outages for nearly 700,000 people, but without causing loss of life, authorities said.
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