颶風襲擊墨西哥旅遊勝地

Thousands of people are taking shelter in luxury hotels after Hurricane Odile crashed into the Los Cabos resort in northwestern Mexico.

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The storm, the strongest on record to make landfall on the Baja California peninsula, had maximum sustained winds of 205-kilometers per hour when it made hit late Sunday.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Monday the storm could drop up to 30 centimeters of rain as it moves north along the resort-packed peninsula before gradually weakening and moving away by late Friday.

Forecasters warn the storm creates the potential for life-threatening floods and mudslides.颶風“奧迪爾”襲擊墨西哥西北部旅遊勝地洛斯卡沃斯，數千人進入豪華酒店躲避。

“奧迪爾”是下加利福尼亞半島有記錄以來最強的一次颶風，星期天晚間登陸時，最大持續風力爲每小時205公里。

美國國家颶風中心星期一早上說，颶風沿佈滿度假村的半島向北移動，帶來近30釐米的降雨。之後將逐漸減弱，星期五晚上移出墨西哥。

天氣預報警告說，風暴可能造成危及生命的洪水和泥石流。