Hurricane Polo, rapidly intensifying from strong El Niño patterns, rages off coast of Mexico

The BBC's Courtney Sargent explains how El Niño could have rapidly turned Hurricane Polo into one of the Pacific season's most powerful storms.

The US National Hurricane Centre in Miami called Polo an “extremely dangerous” storm and forecast the system would turn sharply to the north-west before moving west-northwest

Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm.

Polo, with sustained winds of 165mph, is churning 215 miles south of Zihuatanejo but is unlikely to directly hit Mexico A tropical storm off the south-west coast of Mexico has intensified into a category 5 monster in fewer than 24 hours, fueled by stronger than usual El Niño…