Tropical Storm Polo intensified into a Category 5 hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast by 2026-09-22, with maximum sustained winds of 160–180 mph. By 2026-09-23, the hurricane's outer rainbands reached Mexico's coast, posing life-threatening flood risks to southwestern Mexico.
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Sept 21 - Polo strengthened off Mexico's Pacific coast into a hurricane on Monday and is forecast to rapidly intensify into a major storm, threatening floods, dangerous surf and strong wind gusts in coastal states and near major beach resorts.
Hurricane Polo has grown into a Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific off southwestern Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Tuesday that it had maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. Polo was forecast to sharply turn…
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Major hurricane Polo intensifies off Mexico's Pacific coast Reuters
Polo, with sustained winds of 165mph, is churning 215 miles south of Zihuatanejo but is unlikely to directly hit Mexico A tropical storm off the south-west coast of Mexico has intensified into a category 5 monster in fewer than 24 hours, fueled by stronger than usual El Niño weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Polo was sending out maximum sustained winds of 165mph (266km/h) on Tuesday
www.latimes.com/california/s... Hurricane Polo could bring heavy rains that will pommel parts of southwestern Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center. Impacts to California are expected to be limited
Sept 23 - Hurricane Polo's rainbands reached Mexico's Pacific coast on Wednesday, posing life-threatening flooding risks, the US National Hurricane Center said.
#Hurricane Polo Reaches 180 mph Off #Mexico’s Pacific Coast thestateofisrael.com/news/story/2... Reports from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft prompted the National Hurricane Center to raise Hurricane Polo's estimated sustained winds to 180 mph (285 km/h) on September 22. The Category 5 storm …