Story highlights Blanca is forecast to be downgraded to a tropical depression Monday night

Forecasters: "Maximum sustained winds have decreased ... with higher gusts"

(CNN) Hurricane Blanca is churning in the Pacific toward Mexico's Baja California coast, where it is expected to make landfall.

Blanca has maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour (110 mph).

"The center of Blanca will approach the southwest coast of the Baja California peninsula later today and move near or along the coast tonight and Monday," the National Hurricane Center said Sunday.

Mexico issued a tropical storm warning from Puerto San Andresito to Punta Abreojos.

By early Sunday, Blanca was about 355 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, where a hurricane watch is in effect.

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