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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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Hurricane "Polo" hit land on Tuesday morning on the Pacific coast of Mexico with a force classifying it as a category 3 out of 5.

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