Hurricane Kay gained strength in the Pacific Wednesday and began lashing Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, where authorities prepared by opening shelters and closing some roads.
Forecasters said there's a chance outer bands of the big storm could bring heavy rain — and possibly flash floods — to parts of scorched Southern California and southwestern Arizona Friday night and Saturday.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Kay was centered about 215 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja peninsula. Kay was moving north-northwest at 12 mph. Forecasters expected Kay to stay offshore as it moves more northward, roughly parallel to the coast, it was an expansive storm, with tropical storm-force winds extending up to 230 miles from the center.
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