Well. Polo finally moved. After spending an almost ridiculous amount of time practically sitting in place, Hurricane Polo is now moving northwest at about 5 mph. And while that is certainly preferable to having a …
🌀 POLO UPDATE #2: Okay… THAT escalated.
Since this morning, Polo has gone from a hurricane to an extremely powerful Category 5, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph and a central pressure of 892 mb. A NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft investigated Polo this afternoon and …
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🌪️ Hurricane Season Novela: Polo Goes From Cat 1 to Cat 5 in Less Than 24 Hours
September 22, 2026 Well. That escalated quickly. When we last checked in on the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Polo was already intensifying rapidly. But the atmosphere apparently decided that “rapidly” wasn’t quite dramatic enough. Over the …
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🌪️ Monday Morning in the Eastern Pacific: Okay, Now We’re Watching Polo
September 21st, 2026 Yesterday’s forecast models were giving us plenty of material for the Cone of Concern™ aka the Cone of Uncertainty, but this morning the National Hurricane Center has given us something much more useful: …
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🌧️ The Pacific Has Entered Act III: Odalys Has a Name, 99E Is Waiting in the Wings, and Los Cabos Is Already Waterlogged
September 20th, 2026 If you have been wondering whether hurricane season is actually over because someone in a Facebook group said it ends in October, allow me to gently put that one back on the …
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Chubascos in Baja: Understanding Our Sudden Summer Storms
If you’ve spent any time in Baja California Sur during the summer, you’ve heard the word chubasco. A fisherman watching the horizon. A boater checking the sky. Someone looking at a dark cloud and saying, “There’s a …
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🌧️ LOS CABOS WEATHER ALERT: RAIN CONTINUES THROUGH TUESDAY
Saturday, September 5 – Tuesday, September 8, 2026 The Los Cabos Civil Protection Directorate is continuing to monitor conditions across the municipality, with the latest extended forecast from Mexico’s National Meteorological Service (SMN/CONAGUA) calling for several more days of …
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Cabo Is Very, Very Wet — While the Pacific Keeps Writing Its Own Story
Friday, September 4, 2026 Cabo doesn’t need a hurricane to remind us how powerful the weather can be. Sometimes the storm stays offshore. Sometimes the center never comes near us. And still, the streets fill. …
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Marie strengthens, Karina fades, Lowell remains extraordinary, and Los Cabos gets another visit from Marie, kind of
September 3rd, 2026 – The Pacific is refusing to give us a quiet chapter. Yesterday we were watching three hurricanes—or the potential for three hurricanes—across the Pacific, with Lowell becoming the second Category 5 of the …
Continue reading🌧️ LOS CABOS: HEAVY RAIN + FLOODING CONDITIONS DEVELOPING
If you are in Cabo San Lucas or San JosĂ© del Cabo right now, please take the rain seriously. Heavy rain is falling across parts of Los Cabos, and flooding is already being reported on streets …
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