The ARRL provided the following update as of Sepember 7:
https://www.arrl.org/news/mexican-emergency-communication-net-activates-for-newton
Mexican Emergency Communication Net Activates for Newton
09/07/2016
The FMRE (Federación Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores) Emergency Communication Net activated as Hurricane Newton, now a tropical storm, approached the Baja California peninsula. The storm now is weakening as it passes over the Mexican state of Sonora. The net has asked the cooperation of the Amateur Radio community in keeping both 7.060 and 7.130 MHz clear for any emergency traffic.
As of 1200 UTC on September 7, Tropical Storm Newton was about 55 miles northwest of Hermosillo, Mexico, and about 180 miles south-southwest of Tucson, Arizona, with maximum sustained winds of 60 MPH, moving north at 17 MPH. Rapid weakening will continue as Newton moves farther inland. The government of Mexico has discontinued all coastal watches and warnings. High wind watches and wind advisories are in effect for portions of the US Southwest.
On its current forecast track, the storm’s center will move over extreme northwestern Mexico this morning and into southeastern Arizona this afternoon.
Durham Radio News.com reports:
Hurricane Newton made landfall on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula near Cabo San Lucas this morning, Tuesday, September 6.
It hit with winds of about 150 kilometres an hour. According to the US National Hurricane Center, when Newton makes a second landfall on the northwest coast of Mexico on Wednesday, it’s expected to still have a hurricane status.
Forecasters are predicting it will end up in southern Arizona as a tropical depression by Wednesday night. In the meantime, Global Affairs has put out a travel advisory encouraging Canadians to avoid unnecessary travel to the area.
IARU Region 2 reports:
Joaquín Solana, XE1R, News Editor for the International Amateur Radio Union Region 2, reports that due to Category 1 Hurricane Newton entering the Baja California peninsula.
Federación Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores (FMRE)’s Emergency Communication Net requests that 7.060 and 7.130 kHz be kept clear for emergency communications traffic.