Guerrero
Polo is a Category 5 again.
Winds of 160 miles an hour. Gusts near 193. Acapulco and Zihuatanejo are shut to ships. The center is still expected to stay offshore.
The Rocket News · Foreign Desk · AcapulcoSeptember 23, 2026 · 4 min read
ACAPULCO — Hurricane Polo regained Category 5 strength off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Wednesday evening. Mexico’s National Meteorological Service, in an account carried by EFE, put the storm at 6:40 p.m. local time with sustained winds of 160 miles an hour and gusts up to 193. It was moving northwest at about 6 miles an hour. The center is still expected to stay at sea.
The ports of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo are shut. Smaller craft have been halted at Manzanillo and Puerto Escondido. Classes along the Guerrero and Michoacán coasts have been suspended. Wikipedia’s storm log, updated Thursday, puts a second peak on the night of September 24, after Polo had fallen to Category 4 and then climbed back. Pressure at the earlier peak was 892 millibars, second in the eastern Pacific only to Patricia.
The center is expected to remain offshore. The coast is not in the clear.
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La Jornada’s front said Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, and Manzanillo remain on alert, with navigation closed, and torrential rain expected in Guerrero and Michoacán. The Mexico desk files the storm, not the politics.
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