MEXICO CITY — Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades and was expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a major hurricane, while another Pacific system, Odalys, strengthened Wednesday from a tropical storm to a hurricane without threatening land.
\n\nThe U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami has called Polo an “extremely dangerous” storm and forecast the system would turn sharply to the northwest before moving west-northwest over the next several days.
\n\nEarly Wednesday, Polo was about 185 miles (300 kilometers) south of Zihuatanejo and 335 miles (540 kilometers) southeast of Manzanillo moving north at 2 mph (4 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (255 kph), the center reported. That put it near the top of Category 4 strength, after earlier being a Category 5 storm.
\n\n“Fluctuations in intensity are expected, but Polo is expected to remain a very powerful major hurricane during the next few days,” the NHC said.
\n\nOdalys was a Category 1 hurricane and was about 1,295 miles (2,085 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, moving east-northeast at 9 mph (15 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph), the hurricane center…
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