{"id":1115,"date":"2026-09-29T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:49:25","slug":"hurricane-polo-makes-baja-landfall-headed-for-a-2nd-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Polo makes Baja landfall, headed for a 2nd in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-29\/Polo-tracking-abc-bh-290926_1790693983628_hpEmbed.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tracking Hurricane Polo. (ABC News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Hurricane Polo made landfall in Baja California overnight and is expected to make a second landfall on the mainland of Mexico on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Polo slammed the Baja California Peninsula near Las Barrancas as a Category 2 hurricane, packing dangerous winds of 96 to 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>After making landfall around 11 p.m. local time, Polo was downgraded to a Category 1 storm as it trekked across the Baja and took aim at the Sonora region of mainland Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Polo formed into a Pacific hurricane on Sept. 20, one of three hurricanes to develop in the Pacific at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Near-record levels of moisture are coming in from the Pacific, aided by strong flow from Polo.<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane&#8217;s remnants will eventually merge later Tuesday with an existing storm system and supercharge moisture across a large swath of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 million people on Tuesday across a dozen states from California and Texas to Iowa are under a flood watch.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, multiple flash flood warnings were in effect across Utah and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Zion National Park saw near-record flooding along the Virgin River and Heaps Canyon as a flash flood wave moved through on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Water rescues were made on Monday evening in Bullhead City, Arizona, after a vehicle got trapped in floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking Hurricane Polo. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) &#8212; Hurricane Polo made landfall in Baja California overnight and is expected to make a second landfall on the mainland of Mexico on Tuesday. Polo slammed the Baja California Peninsula near Las Barrancas as a Category 2 hurricane, packing dangerous winds of 96 to 110 mph. After making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}