Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico as a Category 2

Boats sit closer to the shore after they were secured by fishermen preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Delta (Victor Ruiz Garcia/AP)

Hurricane Delta has made landfall in Mexico as an extremely dangerous Category 2 storm, coming ashore near Puerto Morelos along the northeastern coast of Yucatan Peninsula.

The US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said satellite imagery, radar data from Cuba and surface observations in Mexico indicate that the centre of Delta came ashore around 5.30am local time sustaining top winds of 110 mph.