Newton on path toward Mexico’s border with Arizona
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Newton was rapidly weakening as a tropical storm on Wednesday after slamming the resorts of Mexico’s southern Baja as a hurricane and making landfall on the country’s mainland.
The storm remained on a path was expected to take it to the U.S. border with potentially dangerous rains for Arizona and New Mexico even as Mexico changed its earlier hurricane warning to a tropical storm warning for the coast of the country’s mainland from Guaymas to Puerto Libertad.
The Mexican government also discontinued all tropical storm warnings for the Baja California Peninsula.
Newton first came ashore near the Los Cabos resorts Tuesday morning as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 90 mph (150 kph), pelting the area with torrential rain as residents sheltered at home and tourists huddled in hotels. The storm broke windows, downed trees and knocked out power, but the area was spared the kind of extensive damage seen two years ago when it was walloped by a stronger storm.