Posted on 09/25/2026 7:10:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
What happens when two massive hurricanes collide? It looks like we are about to find out. Hurricane Polo and Hurricane Odalys are heading directly toward one another. Meteorologists have some theories about what will happen as they slam into one another, but nobody really knows. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Nolo is poised to become Hurricane Nolo. We are being told that it could drop several feet of rain on some parts of Hawaii. Of course the east coast is not being left out of the chaos either. An absolutely huge nor’easter is already causing severe flooding on the east coast. We were anticipating that we would see some absolutely crazy weather this fall, and that is exactly what we are getting.
Hurricane Polo has been absolutely shocking the experts for days.
It went from being a weak tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours.
On Thursday, it dropped down to a Category 4 storm, but we were being told that some “near-term strengthening is possible”…
Hurricane Polo’s intensity oscillated between Category 4 and Category 5 on Thursday as its path started moving away from Mexico’s southwestern coast. The storm was expected to remain offshore, while its outer rainbands spread across southwestern Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
“Some near-term strengthening is possible, and Polo is expected to remain a powerful major hurricane for the next few days,” the Miami-based center said.
That forecast turned out to be accurate, because now it appears that Hurricane Polo is about to strengthen into a Category 5 storm for a third time…
There is nothing about Hurricane Polo that is normal.
The rate at which it originally intensified into a very powerful hurricane stunned everyone, and it ultimately became the second most powerful storm ever recorded in the Eastern Pacific…
Its intensification was dramatic even by those standards, with winds that skyrocketed from 45 mph early Monday morning to 150 mph at around the same time the following day. The hurricane center described its transformation as “truly remarkable.”
Its maximum sustained winds climbed as high as 180 mph at one point, far exceeding the 157 mph threshold for Category 5, the strongest on the hurricane scale.
Polo’s central pressure — an indicator of its strength and potential destructiveness — made it the second-strongest hurricane on record in the Eastern Pacific, behind 2015’s Hurricane Patricia. The storm’s wind speeds tied 2009’s Hurricane Rick as the third-strongest on record for the region.
In addition, a temperature reading that was actually taken inside the eye of Hurricane Polo matched an all-time record that was established by Hurricane Rita all the way back in 2005…
The flight-level temperature reading inside Polo’s eye on Tuesday “tied Hurricane Rita’s in 2005 for the warmest on record, surpassing even some of the most intense western Pacific Super Typhoons ever directly observed like Megi in 2010,” Lowry wrote, crediting Derrick Herndon, a hurricane researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
“Simply put, the amount of latent heat being released inside the core of Polo from the intense ring of thunderstorms surrounding its eye (the notorious eyewall) was exceptional, a rare show of force from Mother Nature when everything aligns to form one of the most powerful storms on Earth,” Lowry wrote.
Everything about this storm seems designed to get our attention.
And now Hurricane Polo is on a collision course with another hurricane.
Hurricane Polo is currently headed in a northwesterly direction and that will take it right into the path of Hurricane Odalys…
Cat. 5 Hurricane Polo is moving northwest off the coast of Mexico towards Baja California where it’s expected to interact with Cat. 1 Hurricane Odalys. Interactions between cyclones where they begin to rotate around a common center point begin around 1400 km (870 miles) apart.
Many meteorologists think that Odalys will fizzle out as it encounters Polo.
But Philippe Papin, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, is warning that there is a possibility that Hurricane Odalys could actually “pull Polo further to the north”…
To the west of Polo, Hurricane Odalys was spinning over the Pacific Ocean. While this storm was not expected to approach land, it could interact with Polo.
“It might pull Polo further to the north, while Odalys could be pulled to the south,” Papin said. “It depends on how close they get together and the overall intensity of those circulations.”
That is a major bombshell.
Right now, we are being assured that Hurricane Polo will make landfall somewhere along the Baja peninsula…
But if Hurricane Polo gets pulled “further to the north”, it could bypass the Baja peninsula altogether.
In such a scenario, there is a possibility that it could actually make landfall in California.
Needless to say, that would be a truly monumental event.
At the same time, Tropical Storm Nolo is getting stronger as it heads toward Hawaii…
Hawaii’s Big Island is under a hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Nolo strengthens in the Pacific Ocean, threatening to dump up to 3 feet of rain on the island this week, the National Hurricane Center said.
Nolo formed Wednesday and could become a hurricane by Thursday night, around the time heavy rainfall on the Big Island could also begin, forecasters said. They also warned that the storm could become a major hurricane by the weekend, meaning a Category 3 or higher.
This is also a very serious storm.
At this stage, even Accuweather is warning that Nolo could potentially do even more damage than Hurricane Lala did…
Hawaii is facing its biggest tropical threat so far this hurricane season with newly named Tropical Storm Nolo forecast to become a Category 3 storm as it nears the Big Island into the weekend.
The impacts could be even more severe than Hurricane Lala, which left residents of the Big Island in “total shock” due to the magnitude of the damage. Communication was cut off for some areas, with the hardest-hit areas of Hawaii being without power for over a week.
Friday and Saturday are expected to be the critical days for this storm.
Maui is expected to get about 20 inches of rain and the Big Island is expected to get up to 35 inches of rain in some areas.
But if a worst case scenario materializes, Accuweather says that up to 55 inches of rain is possible…
Rainfall totals could reach as high as 35 inches at higher elevations on the Big Island and 20 inches on Maui, much of it at excessive rainfall rates that will make flooding likely, according to hurricane center forecasts.
“This rainfall may produce catastrophic life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in areas of steep terrain,” the hurricane center said in a forecast late Wednesday night Hawaii time.
A forecast from AccuWeather says that as much as 55 inches of rain is possible from Nolo, which could rival Hawaii’s all-time highest rainfall total from a tropical cyclone. The record now belongs to Hurricane Lane, which dumped 58 inches on the Big Island in 2018.
I can’t even imagine what that much rain would look like.
On the east coast, a very scary nor’easter is going to create all sorts of chaos in the days ahead.
It is technically not a hurricane, but in many ways it is acting like one.
In fact, we are being told that models are projecting that it will develop “a giant eye at its center by Saturday”…
Millions of Americans have been warned to prepare now as a massive storm approaches the East Coast.
Meteorologists are monitoring a nor’easter, a strong storm off the US coast in the Atlantic, expected to slam into the Northeast in just hours, bringing heavy downpours, coastal flooding, tropical storm-force winds and power outages from Virginia to Maine.
Weather models tracking the nor’easter show it developing a giant eye at its center by Saturday, a formation similar to those seen in hurricanes.
This storm is going to cause so much flooding.
In fact, severe coastal flooding has already started in Virginia…
Flooding began on Wednesday morning in Norfolk, Virginia, where 1 to 2 feet of seawater inundated coastal areas. Rain compounded the tidal flooding, according to AccuWeather Reporter Leslie Hudson, who was covering the storm’s impacts in southeastern Virginia.
“You can’t get through with low-profile vehicles,” Hudson said on Wednesday evening along a flooded road in Norfolk. To add to the dangers, it wasn’t just water in the streets. “There’s also some fire ant flotillas. There’s also gasoline. There’s also oil. Several of the cars that have flooded out, of course, are leaking fluids. So altogether it’s just not a great recipe.”
We haven’t seen a storm of this magnitude on the east coast in quite a while.
Meteorologists are expecting that New England will get hit the hardest…
The heaviest impacts are predicted throughout New England, hitting Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and southern Maine with winds potentially reaching 70 mph and four to eight inches of rain in many areas.
AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter warned in a statement: ‘This storm may be remembered for its destructive coastal flooding and severe beach erosion, especially along eastern Long Island and the Massachusetts coast.’
Coastal flood warnings have been issued in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia on Thursday, with the National Weather Service (NWS) saying that over three feet of water from the sea will be pushed onto land in these areas.
If you live on the east coast, please take this storm very seriously.
If you live in Hawaii, please stay inside this weekend.
And if you live in California, I would suggest watching the path of Hurricane Polo very closely.
The weather has become very “interesting” during the second half of 2026, and I am convinced that a lot more surprises are still ahead.
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What kind of website is that? It’s hysteria central.
I guess it is too late to build a fallout shelter?
I hope, the hurricane makes it here.
We in AZ really need some good soak!
It is very serious, no doubt. All the more reason to avoid hype. I’ve read up on this recently. I dont like the reference that “nobody knows” what happens if they collide, which leads the reader to think there could be some super big mega mega cyclone. Apparently it has happened and we do know what occurs: think of two giant buzz saws colliding. What happens? Do they become one giant buzz saw? no; they tear each other apart. Just like the colliding buzz saws create a huge amount of shrapnel, the two storms still have a vast amount of moisture that has to go somewhere, but the result of the collision is weakening, not strengthening
Also the reference to a cyclone potentially making landfall in California. First, there are no tracks predicting that right now. Second, since 1854 there’s only one documented instance of a cyclone making a direct hit on California. This is because the Pacific Current comes out of Alaska and runs down the coast. That’s why San Francisco is so cold in the summer and offshore fog is common off the coast through the summer, and in many areas migrates inland at night. The water is too cold to support a hurricane; they rapidly fall apart. Still, per this article, just over 100 times in that 170 years disintegrating cyclones, that is, tropical storms, have come ashore and had major impacts. My point is just that it’s a bit irresponsible to mention a landfall potential without providing any further context
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes
Agreed. See my no. 24
NOW IT MAKES SENSE! The media cannot name this storm!! It can only be called a scary mean Nor’easter. Why? Because of the naming convention for Tropical Depression/Hurricanes! The art of propaganda is to focus like a laser on a subject. You’ll note that all of the snow storms are named so people can go into a tizzy and become hysterical that they are going to die soon.
I guess it is too late to build a fallout shelter?
I blame The Weather Channel.
Every time there is a hurricane going to hit the east coast their ratings spike. So, you can’t blame them to try and hype these storms.
Which is why you get the scenes of the girl newscaster sitting in the canoe in a flooded street. Then two guys walk by and you realize the water is about 3” deep.
Or the guy that pretended that the wind was a lot worse than it was by leaning into it.
I am sure there will be power outages on Nantucket, Long Island and Cape Cod. There is this one town on a skinny point just outside of Boston that ALWAYS floods. They will have someone broadcasting from there. Plus Jim Cantore will probably be at the Coast Guard station in Chatham, MA.
Translation: “It’s a slow (non) news year in the Atlantic, so let’s focus on Pacific storms, most of which won’t impact the mainland US.”
Nolo will hit the Mexican mountains and break up. The question is where the leftover moisture goes - AZ, NM, or TX.
One of these places is just barely above sea level on a normal day. When you get high tide and a storm surge it could be 3-5’ under water. The Boston news stations are always broadcasting from them during full moon high tide storm cycles. They should really condemn all the houses there.
Come to AZ, please
WHEEE-hawwww!
Weather!
TP, milk and bread, batt-rees, Yankee Candles in manly man scents...
clear blue skies and 5 day forecasts for more of the same...but I am ready!
Love the tongue twister names for these water twisters. Make me yawn and swipe. At least they are pronounceable by the americans who have to try to say them. Nobody gets fired for lousy performance anymore.
Johnny Weissmuller, pick up the white courtesy phone...
(youngins won’t have a clue)
Seriously, though, Lord have mercy on all involved!
Where is “Manchvegas”? Never heard of it, born and raised in New England.
VW Jetta diesel, the starter was at the bottom of the engine. It was so low that it only took about eight inches before it was underwater.
I’m thinking that if this season’s El Niño is all it’s cracked up to be, lakes Meade and Powell will fill up. But Lordy that’s the kind of rain event that made the dalton sea back in about 2012 or so. That’s what first prompted the idea of the Hoover dam. I believe it was Hoover who first thought of it 20 years before it was actually built
I’m thinking that if this season’s El Niño is all it’s cracked up to be, lakes Meade and Powell will fill up. But Lordy that’s the kind of rain event that made the dalton sea back in about 2012 or so. That’s what first prompted the idea of the Hoover dam. I believe it was Hoover who first thought of it 20 years before it was actually built
I’m thinking that if this season’s El Niño is all it’s cracked up to be, lakes Meade and Powell will fill up. But Lordy that’s the kind of rain event that made the dalton sea back in about 2012 or so. That’s what first prompted the idea of the Hoover dam. I believe it was Hoover who first thought of it 20 years before it was actually built
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