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Hurricane Polo became an overnight monstrosity in the Pacific Ocean, strengthening into a Category 5 with winds of 160 mph. Just a day earlier, the system was a tropical storm. That means the system’s winds increased by 110 mph in just 24 hours, strengthening at triple the rate needed to qualify as rapid intensification. The small, compact storm on Tuesday morning was about 220 miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, and is expected to stall through early Wednesday before being tugged northwest, parallel to the Mexican coast.
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