Just days after a severe tropical storm Odile battered the Baja California peninsula, Tropical Storm Polo is forecast to follow suit.
As if the damage caused by storm ODILE was not enough, storm Polo has been seen trailing fast. Tropical Storm Polo is moving Northwestwards, parallel to the Mexican Pacific coast, where tropical storm watches have been issued.
Though the core of the system is expected to stay offshore, strong winds, heavy rain, high surf and rip currents may eventually affect portions of the coast, including the resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa.
The current thinking is that building high pressure aloft over northern Mexico may help turn Polo toward the west-northwest, away from the southern Baja peninsula.
Storms pile up back-to-back
Hurricane Odile has created history of sorts as it goes into the record books as the strongest tropical cyclone on record in modern recordkeeping on Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
The Category 3 storm made a direct hit on Cabo San Lucas, a popular tourist destination, on Sunday night leaving tourists stranded and shops open for robbery.
The hurricane's most severe impacts were in the municipalities of Los Cabos, which includes both Cabo San Lucas and San Jose Del Cabo, and La Paz, which lies north of Los Cabos and is the capital of Baja California Sur. The grazing of the storm with the land has caused widespread power outages, flooding and wind damages.
However, Baja peninsula, which is still recovering from the devastating Hurricane Odile, is currently reeling under uncertainty about the tropical storm Polo becoming a hurricane. It was located about 285 miles south of Acapulco and had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph is expected to strengthen into a hurricane later this week.
