Hurricane Erick has made landfall as a category 3 storm in Southern Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center, after rapidly intensifying overnight to an "extremely dangerous" category 4 storm. The National Hurricane Center's Pacific office said Erick made landfall around 7:43 a.m. EST in extreme western Oaxaca, Mexico, just east of Punta Maldonado, with sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. https://www.wtsp.com/article/weather/hurricane/hurricane-erick-landfall-southern-mexico/67-91efd2e5-9438-41d7-af01-dcebbeeeb7c1