Hurricane Polo is already throwing its weight around in Cabo San Lucas — and the first images of waves look downright vicious. Terrifying. Diabolical, even.
Footage from the southern tip of Baja shows huge, dark-blue righthand slabs detonating beside Cabo’s iconic Arch, with thick lips pitching into seemingly bottomless sections. This isn’t playful tropical surf. The waves look mean, fast and potentially deadly, particularly with hurricane-driven currents and all that moving water wrapped around jagged rock.
Check it out, linked here, and below:
Surfline has now posted some of its first footage from Polo, and its Cabo forecast says the initial southeast pulse is already producing widespread overhead surf, with top spots pushing double-overhead-plus and standout waves approaching 15 foot faces. Forecasters expect conditions to become increasingly overloaded and unruly through the weekend.
And Polo is still an absolute beast.
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As of Friday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center placed the Category 5 hurricane about 395 miles south of Cabo San Lucas, packing sustained winds of 180 mph. The storm had already undergone one of the most extreme rapid-intensification events ever documented in the eastern Pacific
Its impacts have been felt hundreds of miles away. Heavy rain and dangerous surf have battered Mexico’s Pacific coast, while officials suspended classes, opened shelters and prepared for flash floods and mudslides across portions of Guerrero and Michoacán.
Now Baja is directly in the conversation.
The NHC has told residents of Baja California Sur to closely monitor Polo, while models take the storm toward the peninsula in the coming days.
And Southern California may be next in line for the ocean energy.
The National Weather Service expects Polo’s larger southeast swell to begin arriving late Sunday and continue through Tuesday, bringing elevated surf to south-facing beaches. With high tides approaching seven feet, forecasters are also warning about coastal flooding and significant erosion from Long Beach to Malibu.
For now, Cabo is getting the first taste.
And judging by those slabs unloading beside the Arch, Polo has plenty of power to spare.
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