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Americas / Mexico · Environment

Hurricane Polo strengthens to Category 5 off Mexico coast

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
11d ago
Final
Outlets
57
Regions
4
Countries
35
Languages
16

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Where it travelled

The 35 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. Open the live map

The regions

49%12%34%

  • Americas 28 outlets · 10 countries · 49%
  • Asia-Pacific 7 outlets · 7 countries · 12%
  • Europe 19 outlets · 15 countries · 34%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 5%

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Hurricane Polo approaches Mexico's Pacific coast, 21 to 22 Sept 2026, 33 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
57 outlets in 35 countries, across 4 regions, 2 of them trade press. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 57 outlets, 3 state-owned, 6 public-service, 48 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 10: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 7: China, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand. Europe 15: Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Israel, Qatar, United Arab Emirates. 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, Greek, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article El País, 22 Sept 2026, 19:42 UTC. First seen 22 Sept 2026, 20:50 UTC. Last seen 24 Sept 2026, 19:33 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
37.39, 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
Continues Hurricane Polo approaches Mexico's Pacific coast. Continued by Hurricanes Nolo and Polo threaten Hawaii and Mexico; Hurricane Polo strengthens to Category 5 in Mexican Pacific. 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
22 Sept 2026 357 4.20 4 3 4 3 2.4 → 3.3
23 Sept 2026 10 47.09 49 32 43 29 3.3
24 Sept 2026 (partial) 14 37.39 57 35 18 12 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 22 Sept, 20:50 UTC · Updated 24 Sept, 19:33 UTC

Covered by 57 outlets

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Americas 28 outlets

  • Bloomberg United States
  • Clarín Argentina
  • CNN Brasil Brazil
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Colombiano Colombia
  • El Comercio Peru
  • El Comercio (EC) Ecuador
  • El Espectador Colombia
  • El Financiero Mexico
  • El Nacional Venezuela
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • El Universal Mexico
  • Emisoras Unidas Guatemala
  • FreightWaves United States
  • G1 Brazil
  • Infobae Argentina
  • La Hora (GT) Guatemala
  • La Jornada Mexico
  • La Nación (AR) Argentina
  • Maritime Executive United States
  • Metrópoles Brazil
  • New York Times United States
  • NPR United States
  • Prensa Libre Guatemala
  • Primicias Ecuador
  • RPP Peru
  • The Globe and Mail Canada
  • Últimas Noticias Venezuela

Asia-Pacific 7 outlets

  • China News Service China
  • Daily Times Pakistan
  • Kabar Kyrgyzstan
  • Media Indonesia Indonesia
  • Stuff New Zealand
  • Thairath Thailand
  • The Indian Express India

Europe 19 outlets

  • BBC News United Kingdom
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus
  • El País Spain
  • ERT Greece
  • Euronews France
  • France 24 France
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium
  • Irish Independent Ireland
  • Lrytas Lithuania
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland
  • NOS Netherlands
  • Observador Portugal
  • RTL Nieuws Netherlands
  • Sky News United Kingdom
  • SVT Sweden
  • Telex Hungary
  • The Independent United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland
  • VG Norway

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel

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