{"id":61526,"date":"2026-09-26T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/did-el-nino-turn-hurricane-polo-into-the-most-powerful-storm-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:15:59","slug":"did-el-nino-turn-hurricane-polo-into-the-most-powerful-storm-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/did-el-nino-turn-hurricane-polo-into-the-most-powerful-storm-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Did El Ni\u00f1o turn Hurricane Polo into the most powerful storm of the season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hurricane Polo, a large storm off the coast of Mexico, has been downgraded to a category 4 hurricane but remains &#8220;very powerful&#8221;, according to the US National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pacific hurricane, one of the strongest of the season, was projected to head towards the coast of south-western Mexico bringing intense wind and rain, but was not expected to make landfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The slow-moving storm is being fuelled by extremely warm waters caused by the El Ni\u00f1o climate phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Courtney Sargent explains how El Ni\u00f1o caused one of the most powerful storms of the season in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckddvlrlr5qeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more about how the El Ni\u00f1o climate phenomenon is affecting the globes weather.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cm93v2zz4w7qo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Polo, a large storm off the coast of Mexico, has been downgraded to a category 4 hurricane but remains &#8220;very powerful&#8221;, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The Pacific hurricane, one of the strongest of the season, was projected to head towards the coast of south-western Mexico bringing intense wind and rain, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61528,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61526\/revisions\/61528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}