Rosa weakens in the face of tropical storm on Baja Road, Southwestern United States

Hurricane Rosa is shown from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) GOES East satellite over the Eastern Pacific Ocean on September 27th. (Reuters)

Hurricane Rosa was weakened into a tropical storm on Sunday as it was heading toward northwestern Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States.

The US National Hurricane Center has said Rosa will hit the Baja California Peninsula and Sonora state on Monday as a tropical storm with heavy rains.

It is then expected that it will move rapidly to the northwest by weakening, bringing 2 to 4 inches (5-10 cm) of rain to the Mogollon Arizona rim and 1 to 2 inches ( 2.5-5 centimeters) southwest of the desert, Central Rockies and Great Basin. Some isolated areas could be more.

Rosa was blowing a maximum of 70 mph (110 km / h) on Sunday night and was centered 380 miles (380 km) southwest of Punta Eugenia in Mexico. It was heading north-northeast at 12 mph (19 km / h).

The National Weather Service announced Wednesday that the flooded areas were covering southern Nevada, southeastern California, southwestern and central Utah and the western two-thirds of Arizona.

Forecasts predict heavy rains in surveillance areas, including Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City, with possible flooding in slot canyons and normally dry washings.

Meanwhile, tropical storm Sergio was developing in the Pacific and could become a hurricane late Sunday night or early Monday, although it does not pose an immediate threat to the land.

Sergio had 65 mph (100 km / h) winds on Sunday afternoon and was centered about 535 miles (860 kilometers) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. The storm was moving west at 13 mph (20 km / h).

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