June 9 (UPI) -- Hurricane Barbara emerged as the first hurricane of the Pacific hurricane season on Monday but National Hurricane Center forecasters said she has "peaked."
In the 2 p.m. MST advisory, Barbara was in the eastern Pacific Ocean approximately 175 miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.
The maximum sustained winds were reported to be at 75 mph at the minimum wind speed for a storm to reach Category 1 hurricane status, and was moving at 10 mph northwest.
A westward motion is expected to continue for the next couple of days, and six hours after the last advisory, Barbara has "become a little less organized."
Forecasters said that "Barbara likely has peaked as a short-lived hurricane. The environmental conditions will become increasingly hostile along the forecast track with the storm crossing into cooler SSTs [Sea surface temperatures] and into a drier, more stable air mass."
There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 10 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 80 miles.
Swells will affect portions of the coast of southwestern Mexico during the next few days, forecasters say. They are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
No named storms have been formed in the Atlantic.
The hurricane season began on June 1.
