CANCÚN, Mexico — Authorities set up emergency shelters Tuesday and cruise ships shifted course as Hurricane Rina strengthened off the Caribbean coast, following a projected track that has it whirling through Cancún and the resort-filled Mayan Riviera, Mexico’s most popular tourist destination.
Rina’s maximum sustained winds have increased to 110 mph, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, making it a Category 2 storm. Forecasters predict it will strengthen as it nears the Mexican coast tonight before rolling over the island of Cozumel, a popular dive spot and cruise-ship port, then along the coast to Cancún.
The forecast track shows it curving east toward Cuba by the weekend, but Michael Brennan at the Hurricane Center said it also could move toward southern Florida.
