How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Sol de México, 30 Sept, 08:37 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 14:06 UTC.
Last article: 8 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 8 outlets · 4 countries · 100%

First movers

El Sol de México 30 Sept, 08:37 UTC
Reforma +5h 30m
Infobae +6h 10m
Prensa Libre +14h 46m
Clarín +19h 13m

Last to join

Mexico News Daily 1 Oct, 23:08 UTC
El Comercio 1 Oct, 14:15 UTC
El Financiero 1 Oct, 13:28 UTC
Clarín 1 Oct, 03:50 UTC
Prensa Libre 30 Sept, 23:22 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Tropical Storm Rachel strengthens toward hurricane status, 28 Sept 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 8 outlets in 4 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 4: Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru. 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 El Sol de México, 30 Sept 2026, 08:37 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 13:50 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 23:08 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: 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 Tropical Storm Rachel strengthens toward hurricane status. Continued by ‘Rachel’ se degrada a huracán categoría 1 y el frente frío 1 llega a México: ¿Cuál será el clima HOY?; Rachel baja a huracán categoría 1 y mantiene lluvias fuertes en Baja California Sur. 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

1 Oct 2026 197 6.31 8 4 8 4 4.0

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Started 30 Sept, 13:50 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 23:08 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 8 outlets

Mexico News Daily Mexico 1 Oct, 23:08 UTC
Hurricane Rachel and the season’s first cold front bring heavy rain to central and northern Mexico
El Financiero Mexico 1 Oct, 22:53 UTC
Huracán ‘Rachel’ se fortalece a categoría 3 frente a costas del país; ¿qué estados esperan lluvias?
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- Huracán ‘Raquel’ toma fuerza y se intensifica a categoría 2: ¿Qué estados esperan fuertes lluvias HOY? 1 Oct, 13:28 UTC
Infobae Argentina 1 Oct, 22:30 UTC
Huracán Rachel gana fuerza y alcanza la categoría 3 frente a costas del Pacífico mexicano
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- Huracán Rachel se intensifica a categoría 2 en el Pacífico: pronostican lluvias intensas en Baja California Sur, Sinaloa y Jalisco 1 Oct, 14:47 UTC
- Rachel se intensificó a huracán categoría 1: Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán y Guerrero tendrán fuertes lluvias hoy miércoles 30 de septiembre 30 Sept, 14:47 UTC
Reforma Mexico 1 Oct, 21:48 UTC
Aumenta 'Rachel' intensidad a hurac�n categor�a 3
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- Evoluciona 'Rachel' a hurac�n categor�a 2 en el Pac�fico 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC
- Se intensifica 'Rachel' a hurac�n categor�a 1 30 Sept, 14:06 UTC
El Sol de México Mexico 1 Oct, 17:44 UTC
Huracán Rachel se fortalece y llega a categoría 3; sigue avance frente a las costas del Pacífico
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- Rachel evoluciona a huracán en el Pacífico mexicano; se prevén lluvias en seis estados y oleaje elevado 30 Sept, 08:37 UTC
Prensa Libre Guatemala 1 Oct, 17:08 UTC
Huracán Rachel se intensifica a categoría 2: Trayectoria, estados afectados e inundaciones
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El Comercio Peru 1 Oct, 14:15 UTC
Huracán Rachel se intensifica a categoría 2 frente a las costas del Pacífico de México
Clarín Argentina 1 Oct, 03:50 UTC
El clima tropical causa fuertes lluvias en EEUU y se forma el huracán Rachel en las costas de México