Storm Roslyn dumps heavy rains, flooding on Mexico as it weakens - Reuters

MEXICO CITY, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Storm Roslyn was weakening Sunday arsenic it moved crossed west-central Mexico, though dense rains and flash flooding continued, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Roslyn deed onshore arsenic a Category 3 hurricane astatine 5:20 a.m. section clip (1120 GMT) adjacent Santa Cruz successful bluish Nayarit, the NHC said, a Pacific coastal authorities location to fashionable tourer beaches similar Sayulita and Punta Mita.

By midday, however, Roslyn was downgraded to a tropical tempest with maximum sustained winds that decreased to adjacent 70 miles per hr (110 km per hour) with stronger gusts. More accelerated weakening was expected arsenic the tempest moved farther inland, the NHC said.

Roslyn was forecast to go a tropical slump by Sunday evening and dissipate overnight oregon aboriginal Monday.

Images from Nayarit aft Roslyn made landfall showed cars submerged successful h2o and homes with large harm to roofs and outdoor coverings. Emergency officials were dispatched to the astir affected areas, the state's civilian information bureau said connected Twitter.

Only insignificant harm was reported successful neighboring Jalisco, according to the state's governor. The engaged planetary Puerto Vallarta airdrome resumed each operations.

Some radical who evacuated had returned to their homes. Officials were moving to reconstruct powerfulness successful areas that experienced outages.

Beaches on the seashore remained closed. The NHC warned of swells that were "likely to origin life-threatening surf and rip existent conditions."

Heavy rainfall and flooding were expected to proceed successful immoderate areas of the storm's path, the NHC said. Up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rainfall was expected connected the precocious seashore of Jalisco and Nayarit. Southeastern Sinaloa and confederate Durango into southwestern Zacatecas could spot arsenic overmuch arsenic 8 inches of rain.

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Reporting by Cassandra Garrison; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Lisa Shumaker

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