{"id":1527970,"date":"2026-07-26T05:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527970"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:17:44","slug":"hurricane-genevieve-moves-through-the-pacific-off-mexico-but-no-direct-threat-to-land-is-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1527970","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Genevieve moves through the Pacific off Mexico, but no direct threat to land is forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1527971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1527971\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Extreme_Tropical_Weather_26205779361967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1527971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Extreme_Tropical_Weather_26205779361967.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Extreme_Tropical_Weather_26205779361967-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Extreme_Tropical_Weather_26205779361967-1018x678.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Extreme_Tropical_Weather_26205779361967-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1527971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This GOES-19 GeoColor satellite image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Genevieve in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, July 24, 2026. (NOAA via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Tropical Storm Genevieve has strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. It is forecast to pick up even more steam and become a major hurricane in the coming days but stay well out to sea on a course roughly parallel to the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Genevieve had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph), making it a Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. A major hurricane is Category 3 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Genevieve&#8217;s center was located about 500 miles (810 kilometers) south-southwest of Manzanillo, and it was headed west-northwest at 17 mph (28 kph).<\/p>\n<p>No coastal watches or warnings were in effect, but the hurricane center said swells from the storm \u2014 likely causing \u201clife-threatening surf and rip current conditions\u201d \u2014 were affecting parts of Mexico&#8217;s southwestern coast on the weekend and would likely hit southern parts of the Baja California Peninsula on Sunday night or Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Farther west in the Pacific, meanwhile, Hurricane Fausto weakened to a Category 1 storm as it continued on a projected path in the general direction of the Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters said it was expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm in the coming days, but warned that it could still generate dangerous surf and said \u201cinterests in the Hawaiian Islands should monitor\u201d its progress.<\/p>\n<p>Fausto had maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph); was located about 995 miles (1,600 kilometers) east of Hilo; and was moving west at 13 mph (20 kph).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Storm Genevieve has strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. It is forecast to pick up even more steam and become a major hurricane in the coming days but stay well out to sea on a course roughly parallel to the shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1527971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-28 05:17:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527972,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527970\/revisions\/1527972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}