Hurricane Sergio may plow into Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and bring snow to U.S.

Hurricane Sergio will make a U-turn and push toward Baja California late next week, and its remnant moisture could once again trigger flooding in the Desert Southwest.

Sergio is currently hundreds of miles west of the Baja California coast in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

On Oct. 3, Sergio became the eighth Category 4 hurricane of the 2018 eastern Pacific hurricane season, topping a previous record of seven Category 4 hurricanes in an eastern Pacific season set in 2015, according to Eric Blake, a tropical scientist at the National Hurricane Center.

Usually, an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone moving west is . . .