{
  "id": 13948634,
  "title": "Hurricane Simon lashes Mexico’s Pacific coast, threatening landfall",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/hurricane-simon-lashes-mexicos-pacific-coast-threatening-landfall",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-12T11:35:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
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    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/10/12/hurricane-simon-lashes-mexico-s-pacific-coast-threatening-landfall"
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  "account": "Hurricane Simon battered Mexico's Pacific coast with powerful winds and torrential rain on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center warned, threatening to make landfall later in the week. The Category 3 storm, downgraded from its initial Category 4 status, moved slowly and posed a significant threat. According to the NHC, Simon was about 50 miles off Cabo Corrientes in Mexico's Jalisco state early Monday, with maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour. Initial forecasts had predicted a landfall on Sunday around midday local time, but now experts anticipate the hurricane will make landfall somewhere along the west-central Mexico coastline by midweek. Dangerous winds and heavy rainfall continued to affect the coast, the NHC reported. El Nino, a warming ocean phenomenon, has fueled the recent surge in Pacific storms, allowing them to intensify despite the typical weakening effects of El Nino on Atlantic hurricanes.",
  "summary": "The US National Hurricane Center said Simon is expected 'to move inland across west-central Mexico around midweek'.",
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      {
        "outlet": "RTE News",
        "title": "Rain floods Mexico's coast as Hurricane Simon weakens",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/rain-floods-mexicos-coast-as-hurricane-simon-weakens",
        "published": "2026-10-12T04:03:30.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "DW News",
        "title": "Hurricane Simon batters Mexico's Pacific Coast",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/hurricane-simon-batters-mexicos-pacific-coast",
        "published": "2026-10-12T06:50:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun",
        "title": "Hurricane Simon Pounds Resorts and Vulnerable Towns along Mexico’s Pacific Coast",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/hurricane-simon-pounds-resorts-and-vulnerable-towns-along-mexicos",
        "published": "2026-10-12T08:22:54.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Hurricane Simon lashes Mexico’s Pacific coast, threatening landfall",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/hurricane-simon-lashes-mexicos-pacific-coast-threatening-landfall-13949133",
        "published": "2026-10-12T11:35:07.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}