Tropical moisture from a powerful hurricane in the East Pacific basin could unleash more than a month's worth of rain in a matter of days over portions of the Southwest later this week and into the weekend.

Priscilla , a Category 2 hurricane as of Tuesday morning, will skirt the coastline of Baja California Sur while gradually losing wind intensity beyond midweek. Gusty winds and locally heavy rain can brush the immediate coastline, but the core of the hurricane is expected to remain offshore.

A dip in the jet stream over the West Coast of the United States will help to pull some of Priscilla's tropical moisture northeastward, aiming widespread showers and thunderstorms at the Four Corners region beginning later this week.

"There is a growing risk that tropical moisture can bring hea

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