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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