Hurricane Erick is forecast to strike the southern coast of Mexico after being upgraded to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 early Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. After becoming a hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean early on June 18,

Hurricane Erick, which rapidly intensified overnight, made landfall Thursday morning on Mexico's Pacific Coast as a powerful Category 3 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Erick came ashore in Mexico's western state of Oaxaca packing sustained winds of 125 mph and heavy rain,

The hurricane was downgraded from a Category 4 to a Category 3 storm as it landed, with maximum sustained winds near 125 mph.