Hurricane John ravaged Mexico’s Guerrero State earlier this week before weakening into a tropical storm, but it is once again threatening the country’s Pacific Coast, which has been drenched by the storm’s rains and battered by its winds in recent days and can expect to receive even more,

Tropical Storm John has caused a total of eight deaths in southern Mexico, and five days of heavy rains have generated severe flooding and mudslides in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. John, in its second incarnation,

The storm is expected to weaken as it moves along the southwestern coast, but officials warned some states in Mexico to brace for risks of flash flooding and mudslides.