(October 1, 2008)—Laura has weakened over the cold waters of the North Atlantic and is a tropical storm no more, the National Hurricane Center says, but a new tropical storm named Marie has formed in the Pacific about 575 miles southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Laura's maximum sustained winds dropped to near 45 miles an hour early Wednesday and the storm lost its tropical characteristics.
The center says it will stop issuing advisories on Laura.
In the Pacific, Marie has maximum sustained winds near 50 miles an hour and is moving near 9 miles an hour to the northwest, away from Mexico.