MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Rick, the strongest eastern North Pacific storm in more than a decade, raged across open seas on Sunday, but forecasters said it could veer into resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula by midweek.
The track of the Category 5 hurricane threatened to disrupt a major sport fishing tournament scheduled to start Wednesday in Los Cabos, where hundreds of fishermen — mainly Americans — were gathering.
The hurricane's winds were still a howling 175 mph (280 kph) Sunday, down slightly from a peak of 180 mph (285 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. But it was projected to move over cooler waters and weaken to around Category 2 status with winds of around 98 mph (156 kph) before hitting land.
The eye was centered about 500 miles (805 kilometers) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas as of 11 a.m. EDT Sunday (1500 GMT).
Rick was moving toward the west-northwest at about 14 mph (22 kph) and it was expected to begin turning toward the northwest over the coming 48 hours before curving toward the northeast, the center said.
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