Hurricane Willa Lashes Mexico’s Pacific Coast

People who were evacuated from their homes are seen in a big room at the Convention Center being used as a shelter while Hurricane Willa approaches the Pacific beach resort, Mexico Oct. 23, 2018. Reuters/Henry Romero

MAZATLAN, Mexico—The center of Hurricane Willa moved over Mexico’s Pacific coastline on the evening of Oct. 23 with winds of more than 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour), buffeting buildings and dumping rain on tourist resorts where thousands of people had moved to safety.

Willa, a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, veered inland near the town of Teacapan, about 60 miles (100 km) south of the coastal resort of Mazatlan in the state of Sinaloa, satellite images showed.