By Brian Lada, Meteorologist
October 21,2013; 9:28PM,EDT
Hurricane Raymond, now a major Category 3 storm, continues to intensify at a rapid pace early Monday.
Raymond is located just off the southwest coast of Mexico and will not have any impacts on the United States. However, the storm does post a threat to part of the southwestern coast of Mexico.
Although Raymond is not expected to make landfall, it will still deliver heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to the Mexican coast near the cities of Manzanillo and Tecoman through midweek.
By late Tuesday, interactions with land as well as drier air aloft and increased wind shear will lead to slight weakening of the system; however, it will still continue to bring rain to the Mexican coast.
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Looking beyond Tuesday night, Raymond will make a sharp turn and move off to the west, taking it away from land and over the open waters of the East Pacific.
This tropical system first began as a tropical depression early on Saturday night before strengthening to tropical storm status early on Sunday morning. By Sunday evening, it had gained hurricane status, and by early Monday morning, it was upgraded to a Category 3 storm.
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Raymond parked off the Mex Pac coast w/ 120mph winds. May not make
landfall, but lots of rain. Could see Lorenzo form in Atlantic
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NASA satellite captures major Hurricane Raymond in Eastern Pacific lashing western Mexico tinyurl.com/lj4jx4y pic.twitter.com/auQv45HyOW
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