Tropical Storm Erick is expected to rapidly intensify before it arrives in Mexico later this week, with some meteorologists anticipating the storm to reach major hurricane strength before landfall. Animated weather footage from windy.

Erick, now a tropical storm, is forecast to become a powerful hurricane before making landfall southeast of Acapulco on Thursday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain.

Tropical Storm Erick is strengthening in the Eastern Pacific Ocean some 265 miles southeast of Puerto Angel, Mexico, and is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane Tuesday night or early

June, including significant severe thunderstorms, flooding rain, tornadoes, a Mexico hurricane danger and, beginning later this week, a strong East and Midwest heat wave. We're covering it all here.

The cyclone is centered about 190 miles south of Zihuatanejo in Mexico’s Guerrero state, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Any hurricane or tropical storm threatening Houston or the Texas coastline draws power from the heat energy stored in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Just two weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season,

Hurricane Special from WESH 2The first hurricane of the East Pacific hurricane season – Barbara – formed off the coast of southwestern Mexico on Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Sign up for our NewslettersBy Wednesday,