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Americas / Mexico · Environment

Hurricane Polo strengthens to Category 5 off Mexico

Rank
Ran
42h
Updated
13d ago
Final
Outlets
33
Regions
5
Countries
20
Languages
8

+10

Where it travelled

The 20 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

64%24%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 6%
  • Americas 21 outlets · 10 countries · 64%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
  • Europe 8 outlets · 7 countries · 24%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%

The figures

Coverage
33 outlets in 20 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 33 outlets, 1 public-service, 32 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 10: Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 1: Malaysia. Europe 7: Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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
German, English, Spanish, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article El Sol de México, 20 Sept 2026, 19:17 UTC. First seen 21 Sept 2026, 00:30 UTC. Last seen 22 Sept 2026, 19:01 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 Americas, Mexico. 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
20.51, at the end of the last day measured. 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
Continued by Hurricane Polo reaches category 5 off Mexico coast. 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
21 Sept 2026 106 11.38 14 8 14 8 2.4
22 Sept 2026 52 20.51 33 20 26 17 2.4 → 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 21 Sept, 00:30 UTC · Updated 22 Sept, 19:01 UTC

Covered by 33 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • IOL South Africa
  • TimesLIVE South Africa

Americas 21 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • CBS News United States
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Colombiano Colombia
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Financiero Mexico
  • El Observador (CR) Costa Rica
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Emisoras Unidas Guatemala
  • Expreso (EC) Ecuador
  • Global News Canada
  • Infobae Argentina
  • Jamaica Observer Jamaica
  • La Hora (GT) Guatemala
  • La Jornada Mexico
  • La Nación (CR) Costa Rica
  • Mexico News Daily Mexico
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala
  • Reforma Mexico
  • RPP Peru

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia

Europe 8 outlets

  • 15min Lithuania
  • Blic Serbia
  • Die Zeit Germany
  • El País Spain
  • Interfax Russia
  • LRT Lithuania
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Cumhuriyet Turkey

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