PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico – Tropical Storm Ivo is steadily pulling away from Mexico ’s Pacific coastline after dumping heavy rainfall and generating rough surf south of the Baja California Peninsula, but some threats will remain as the system only slowly heads west to northwest.

Overall, Ivo is considered to be a small cyclone, with tropical-storm-force winds only extending outward some 40 miles, but it is expected to strengthen through the end of the week.

Forecasters say conditions may allow Ivo to briefly reach minimal hurricane status, but a stout ridge of high pressure over northern Mexico and the southwestern United States will keep the system on a westward track, steering it away from land.

SHIPWRECKS DATING BACK TO 1700S UNCOVERED ALONG NORTH CAROLINA SHORELINE

Still, hazards fro

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