Hurricane Polo (2026)

Hurricane Polo reached Category 5 in the Eastern Pacific between September 17, 2026 and September 24, 2026, with a lowest pressure of 892 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Polo, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2026 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin: Eastern Pacific
Dates: September 17, 2026 to September 24, 2026
Peak strength: Category 5, 155 kt (178 mph)
Lowest pressure: 892 mb (26.34 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 211 km (131 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 17.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 190 kt (219 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier: EP172026

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Sep 17, 12:00	7.0N 102.7W	20 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Sep 17, 18:00	7.0N 103.3W	20 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Sep 18, 00:00	7.0N 103.9W	20 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Sep 18, 06:00	7.1N 104.3W	20 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Sep 18, 12:00	7.3N 105.0W	20 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Sep 18, 18:00	7.7N 105.4W	20 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Sep 19, 00:00	8.4N 105.7W	20 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Sep 19, 06:00	9.4N 105.9W	20 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Sep 19, 12:00	10.3N 106.0W	25 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Sep 19, 18:00	11.2N 106.0W	25 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Sep 20, 00:00	12.6N 106.3W	25 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Sep 20, 06:00	13.4N 105.8W	30 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Sep 20, 12:00	14.0N 105.5W	30 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Sep 20, 18:00	14.5N 105.1W	30 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 21, 00:00	15.1N 104.8W	35 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 21, 06:00	15.5N 104.1W	40 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 21, 12:00	15.4N 103.6W	55 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 21, 18:00	15.2N 103.0W	70 kt	978 mb	Hurricane
Sep 22, 00:00	15.1N 102.5W	90 kt	967 mb	Hurricane
Sep 22, 06:00	14.7N 102.0W	120 kt	945 mb	Hurricane
Sep 22, 12:00	14.6N 101.6W	140 kt	926 mb	Hurricane
Sep 22, 18:00	14.6N 101.5W	155 kt	892 mb	Hurricane
Sep 23, 00:00	14.6N 101.4W	145 kt	905 mb	Hurricane
Sep 23, 06:00	14.8N 101.3W	140 kt	915 mb	Hurricane
Sep 23, 12:00	15.2N 101.6W	130 kt	925 mb	Hurricane
Sep 23, 18:00	15.5N 102.1W	125 kt	931 mb	Hurricane
Sep 24, 00:00	15.8N 102.3W	140 kt	923 mb	Hurricane

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2026

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.