Updated 5 a.m. ET
A weakened Willa has been downgraded to a tropical depression after landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in Western Mexico, even as “life-threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall” persist in the region, the National Hurricane Center says.
The storm came ashore near Isla del Bosque, Sinaloa, at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday with maximum winds of 120 mph. Those winds have weakened to just 35 mph, according to the NHC’s 5 a.m. ET update. The storm is currently about 75 miles northeast of Mexico’s midwestern state of Durango, moving north at 25 mph.
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