Hurricane Rosa's remnants likely to bring widespread heavy rain, flash flooding to southwest US

Source: ABC News

As forecast, Hurricane Rosa is weakening as it moves over the cooler waters of the northern coast of Mexico. However, Rosa will bring flooding rains across northern Mexico and the southwest U.S. over the coming days.

Rosa had winds of 85 mph, a Category 1 Hurricane, as of 5 a.m. Eastern time Sunday, and was located 385 miles southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico.

Rosa is expected to move north on Sunday. Meanwhile, a trough is beginning to take shape over the Pacific Ocean and move east toward the West Coast of the U.S. As Rosa approaches the Baja California peninsula on Monday as a tropical storm it will begin to push deep tropical moisture northward into the southwest U.S.

Rosa will bring up to 10 inches of rain in parts of Mexico on Monday. Then, tropical moisture interacting with the approaching trough will create widespread heavy rainfall in the Southwest over the coming days. Locally, 1 to 4 inches of rain will cause dangerous flash flooding, debris flows and possibility landslides in the desert.

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