Tropical update: Grace intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane as it heads for another landfall in Mexico

HOUSTON — The KHOU 11 Weather team and National Hurricane Center is tracking two different systems in the tropics right now — Hurricane Grace and Tropical Storm Henri.

As of 6 p.m. Friday evening, Grace was beginning to intensify as it heads for second landfall in Mexico. The storm lost punch as it zipped across the Yucatan Peninsula, but it regained energy over the Gulf of Mexico.

Grace is heading west across the southern Gulf.

On the forecast track, the center of Grace is forecast to move across the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and then make another landfall along the coast of mainland Mexico north of Veracruz late Friday into early Saturday.

Henri has maximum sustained winds at 65 mph as it moves west-northwest at 9 mph. The system is expected to turn to the north and head for the New England coast this weekend as a Cat 1 Hurricane.