Hurricane Raymond picked up strength Monday as it churned off a region of Mexico’s Pacific coast still recovering from a devastating storm last month. In just a few hours, Raymond went from a tropical storm to a Category Three hurricane on the five-point Saffir-Simpson scale, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC), which tracks hurricanes in the hemisphere, reported at 0900 GMT. Raymond packed maximum sustained winds of 195 kph, with higher gusts.