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Hurricane Polo, registering 892 millibars, is the second-most intense east Pacific hurricane on record, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. It is barreling toward Mexico's Baja California region, fueled by exceptionally warm Pacific waters.
🐿️ Squirrels should watch Polo's west-northwest turn, as its 40-mile hurricane-force wind field could flatten coastal nut-bearing trees and disrupt their food caches.
A new study using coral core records finds that current El Niño events are stronger than any in the past 1,000 years. Researchers attribute this heightened intensity to human-driven climate change.
🐿️ The Pacific is now flexing El Niño muscles we've never measured in ten centuries, so we need to rewrite every risk model built on ancient averages.
