Hurricane Grace rapidly intensified into a major hurricane on Friday night as it barreled towards Mexico's Gulf coast, threatening to lash the oil-producing state of Veracruz and central Mexico with strong winds and heavy rains.
By Friday night, Grace was blowing maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour , with higher gusts, making it "a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale,"Grace was about 105 miles north of Veracruz, moving west at 10 mph , the Miami-based NHC said. It is forecast to reach land later on Friday or in the early hours of Saturday.
Through Sunday, the NHC said Grace would dump 6 to 12 inches of rain over large swaths of eastern and central Mexico, and up to 18 inches in some areas. The heavy rainfall would likely cause areas of flash and urban flooding, it added. Grace pounded Mexico's Caribbean coast on Thursday, downing trees and causing power outages for nearly 700,000 people, but without causing loss of life, authorities said. Earlier in the week, it doused Jamaica and Haiti with torrential rain.
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