BREAKING: Hurricane Polo is now a Category 5.
160 mph winds. About 220 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
Yesterday morning this was a 45 mph tropical storm. It gained 105 mph of wind in a single day. Only two hurricanes on record in this ocean have ever gained more: Patricia in 2015, and a storm nobody named in 1957. Otis, the one that flattened Acapulco, did it at this same pace.
The forecast keeps the core just off the coast of Mexico, but Zihuatanejo to Manzanillo gets wind, big surf and flooding rain through Thursday.
A lot of y'all asked where the hurricanes went this year. This is where. A super El Niño is feeding the Pacific and starving the Atlantic.