Hurricane Andres strengthened Monday far out over the eastern Pacific Ocean and is generating swells likely to cause dangerous surf and rip currents on parts of the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Andres is a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 230 kilometers per hour (kph) early Monday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasts that the storm will begin weakening later in the day. The hurricane is centered roughly 1,325 kilometers southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico. Meanwhile, a tropical depression in the Pacific is expected to strengthen to a tropical storm later Monday. The depression is centered roughly 550 kilometers south-southwest of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and is moving northwest near 9 kph.
