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Hurricane Polo churns off Mexico's Pacific coast, 'one of the strongest storms ever'

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Hurricane Polo grew into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades on Tuesday, and it was expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a Category 5 hurricane. Polo was an “extremely dangerous” storm with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in an update from an NOAA [...] Meanwhile, Odalys has strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane.

The large storm in the Pacific Ocean is being driven by warm waters caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon. The powerful hurricane comes as the Pacific region braces for the impact of El Nino

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