# Hurricane Polo churns off Mexico

https://mins.news/en/item/70476

- France 24, 2026-09-23 10:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/hurricane-polo-churns-off-mexico

> Hurricane Polo has intensified into one of the Pacific’s most powerful cyclones in decades and is expected to pass near Mexico’s southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center called it “extremely dangerous”; maximum sustained winds reached 165 miles per hour.

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