Tropical Storm Polo, the sixteenth named storm of a busy eastern Pacific hurricane season, formed Tuesday several hundred miles south-southeast of Acapulco, México. Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph (65 kph) and the National Hurricane Center said that strengthening is possible during the next 24 hours. Polo could become a hurricane by Thursday, September 18.
Polo is moving toward the northwest near 12 mph (19 kph) and is expected to continue over the next two days, paralleling the coast of southwestern México.
Tropical storm watches are in effect from Zihuatanejo, Guerrero in the south to Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco in the north where tropical storm conditions are possible beginning on Wednesday. Tropical storm-force winds extend out about 80 miles from the center of Polo.
So far the 2014 hurricane season has seen 16 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 7 major hurricanes. This season has now surpassed an entire average season (15, 8, and 3). If Polo intensifies to a major hurricane, then Polo would tie the 1992 season for the most Category 3 or stronger hurricanes for any eastern Pacific season.
(from Insurance Journal)
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