Miami : Tropical Storm Simone has strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.
The hurricane was located approximately 380 kilometres south of Manzanillo, on Mexico’s western coast, with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometres per hour.
The NHC said the hurricane was moving west northwest at 9 kilometres per hour and was expected to continue northwest on Friday before turning north on Saturday.
