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Polo becomes third Category 5 Pacific hurricane of season near Mexico

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  • On Tuesday, Polo became the third Category 5 hurricane of the Pacific season.
  • Polo was forecast to skirt Mexico's southwestern coast as a major hurricane.
  • The U.S. National Hurricane Center called Polo an extremely dangerous storm with maximum sustained winds of 241 kph.
  • Polo was expected to turn sharply northwest before moving west-northwest over several days.
  • Another Pacific system, Odalys, strengthened Wednesday from tropical storm to Category 1 hurricane without threatening land.
Polo off Mexican coast grows into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades

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