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Hurricane Polo Makes Landfall in Baja California with Forecast of ‘Life-Threatening’ Winds – WTOP News
- On Monday, Hurricane Polo approached the Baja California Peninsula as a Category 3 storm, prompting Mexican authorities to suspend government work and school activities across Baja California Sur.
- The military deployed nearly 7,000 troops across Baja California Sur while officials activated 169 shelters to protect residents from life-threatening winds and flash flooding.
- In Puerto San Carlos, a fishing port of nearly 6,000 people, high tides and pounding surf breached sand barriers as residents boarded up homes and weighed evacuations.
- Packing sustained winds of 115 mph, Polo marks the first hurricane landfall of 2026, intensified by the El Niño phenomenon causing historic equatorial Pacific warming.
- Crossing the Gulf of California, the storm is expected to make a second landfall in Sonora, while its remnants could douse the U.S. Southwest with heavy rainfall later in the week.
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24 heuresHurricane "Polo" hit land on Tuesday morning on the Pacific coast of Mexico with a force classifying it as a category 3 out of 5.
·Montreal, Canada
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Even before the landing, "Polo" caused dead, missing and severe damage. Now the hurricane has reached Mexico. At the same time, another tropical storm is gaining dangerous power off the coast.
·Bonn, Germany
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Total News Sources208
Leaning Left27Leaning Right20Center75Last UpdatedBias Distribution62% Center
Bias Distribution
- 62% of the sources are Center
62% Center
L 22%
C 62%
R 16%
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