The circulation around Polo continues to exhibit increasing signs of intensification and it was upgraded to hurricane status on Wednesday night.\u00a0 Polo is the sixteenth named tropical cyclone to form over the Eastern North Pacific Ocean during 2014 and it is the eleventh to reach hurricane intensity.<\/p>\n
At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Hurricane Polo was located at latitude 16.4\u00b0N and longitude 104.6\u00b0W which put it about 180 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico.\u00a0 Polo was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. and the minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
The movement of Polo has varied as the circulation has tightened around the core and more well defined spiral bands have developed.\u00a0 In recent hours it has exhibited a more west-northwesterly motion after moving more toward the northwest earlier in the day.\u00a0 Polo appears to be being steered mostly by an upper level high over Mexico.\u00a0 The upper level high should steer Polo on a track that is roughly parallel to the west coast of Mexico.\u00a0 Many of the numerical models are predicting that Polo will pass southwest of Baja California, but as Hurricane Odile showed, it could take a track closer to the coast.<\/p>\n
Polo is moving over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and further intensification is likely.\u00a0 As the organization of the circulation increases and an eye forms, a period of more rapid intensification is possible.<\/p>\n
The government of Mexico has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the portion of the coast from Punta San Telmo to Playa Perula.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for the portion of the coast from Playa Perula to Cabo Corrientes.<\/p>\n
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