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Hurricane Polo Regains Category 5 Strength, Forecast to Approach Baja California Sur Monday

By Plainly Now News Desk Published September 25, 2026

Satellite image of Hurricane Polo with a small, sharp eye over the eastern Pacific, southwest of mainland Mexico, with the tip of the Baja California peninsula at the top of the frame.

Hurricane Polo regained Category 5 strength Friday with winds of 180 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It is forecast to approach Baja California Sur on Monday, and its moisture may indirectly add to heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest early next week.

Polo Reaches Category 5 Off Southwestern Mexico; Tropical Storm Warning Now in Force

By Plainly Now News Desk Published September 21, 2026 Updated September 25, 2026

National Hurricane Center forecast map for Hurricane Polo off southwestern Mexico, showing a Tropical Storm Warning in blue along the Guerrero and Colima coast with a Tropical Storm Watch in yellow to its west, and a five-day track cone that turns west-northwest away from land.

Polo became a hurricane Monday with 80 mph winds off southwestern Mexico; the Hurricane Center forecasts a major hurricane by Tuesday and has issued a Tropical Storm Watch.

Tropical Storm Fay Forms Far From Land — and the Atlantic Still Has Not Made a Hurricane This Year

By Plainly Now News Desk Published September 20, 2026 Updated September 25, 2026

National Hurricane Center forecast map showing Tropical Storm Fay in the open Atlantic between Bermuda and the Azores, with its five-day track cone curving southwest, far from the US East Coast and with no coastal watches or warnings shown.

Tropical Storm Fay formed near the Azores on Sunday with no coastal threat — the sixth Atlantic storm of 2026, and none of the six has yet become a hurricane.