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Hurricane Polo impacts Mexico and southwestern United States

Rank
Ran: 36h
Updated: 5d ago
Closed
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

CBS News United States · English 29 Sept, 14:46 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (3)

Read at CBS News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Infobae, 29 Sept, 00:00 UTC.
Second country: United States, with CBS News.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 83%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%

First movers

Infobae 29 Sept, 00:00 UTC
La Nación (AR) +13h 34m
CBS News +14h 45m
El Comercio +16h 13m
NPR +30h 16m

Last to join

The Independent 30 Sept, 13:14 UTC
NPR 30 Sept, 06:16 UTC
El Comercio 29 Sept, 16:13 UTC
CBS News 29 Sept, 14:46 UTC
La Nación (AR) 29 Sept, 13:34 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Hurricane Polo threatens Mexico and US with heavy rain, 26 to 28 Sept 2026, 27 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 3: Argentina, Peru, United States. Europe 1: United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article Infobae, 29 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 00:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 13:14 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Hurricane Polo threatens Mexico and US with heavy rain. Continued by Pacific moisture brings heavy rain to central US as Hurricane Rachel forms. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

29 Sept 2026 358 3.48 4 3 4 3 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 00:20 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 13:14 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 5 outlets

NPR United States 30 Sept, 06:16 UTC
Hurricane Polo's remnants bringing more rain to flood-struck U.S. Southwest
CBS News United States 29 Sept, 21:18 UTC
Tropical Storm Polo will impact the U.S. after slamming Mexico. See its path.
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- Hurricane Polo will impact the U.S. after slamming Mexico. See its path. 29 Sept, 14:46 UTC
El Comercio Peru 29 Sept, 16:13 UTC
Remanentes del huracán Polo podrían provocar lluvias e inundaciones en EE. UU.: cuáles son las zonas bajo alerta
La Nación (AR) Argentina 29 Sept, 13:34 UTC
Avanza el “Super El Niño” con los huracanes Polo y Nolo con trayectoria en territorio estadounidense desde el Pacífico
Infobae Argentina 29 Sept, 00:00 UTC
La trayectoria del huracán Polo pone al suroeste de EE. UU. en alerta por fuertes lluvias

Europe 1 outlet

The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 13:14 UTC
Hurricane Polo aftermath brings widespread flooding and dam failure fears to US Southwest