Hurricane Newton, which just got done drenching Cabo San Lucas, is making its way up the Gulf of California and could be headed for Tucson.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood watch through Wednesday evening.
"We put the watch out because there's definitely an elevated risk of heavy rain," said Jim Meyer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Tucson office.
Hurricane Newton is expected to make landfall southwest of Hermosillo, Sonora, about 245 miles south of Tucson, he said
The moisture from the hurricane will bring strong thunder storms and possibly dust storms to Tucson today, he said.
Tomorrow, what remains of Newton probably will cross into southeast Arizona, weakening rapidly as it does, but potentially bringing heavy rain and flash flooding, Meyer said.
Near the Arizona-Sonora border, Newton will probably still be at tropical storm strength, Meyer said, with winds out of the east at 30-40 miles per hour.
