Tropical Storm Paul formed off Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Saturday and headed toward the country’s Baja California Peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The center forecast Paul would later become a hurricane. Its charts showed the weather system passing near the tip of the desert peninsula popular with U.S. tourists next week, before heading for the Mexican mainland across the narrow Sea of Cortez. Hurricanes that enter the Sea of Cortez, surrounded on three sides by land, tend to fizzle out after running aground, posing no risk to the United States. Full Story