Hurricane bud: Dangerous flood threatens Mexico

Hurricane Bud weakened rapidly off Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday on its way towards the resorts at the southern end of the Baja California Peninsula.

The US National Hurricane Center said Bud has now been downgraded to a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour. It is currently located about 460km to the south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas at the peninsula's southern tip

Bud is expected to produce 50 to 75mm of rainfall across much of southwest Mexico through Thursday. Totals could be twice that in one or two places