Category 5 Hurricane Polo is an 'extremely dangerous' storm off the coast of Mexico

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Polo grew increasingly strong Tuesday and was forecast to gain more intensity as it skirted Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 cyclone, weather experts said.Polo was an “extremely dangerous” storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (266 kph), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.It was centered 215 miles (346 kilometers) south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and stationary over the Pacific Ocean at midday. The hurricane center said it would send an aircraft into the storm to investigate.Mexican authorities temporarily suspended classes in a number of areas along the coast as Polo brushed along the coastline. Many residents of the region were on edge this week watching the rapidly intensifying hurricane plow by. In recent years, the Pacific coastal states of Guerrero and Oaxaca have been ravaged by powerful hurricanes walloping the coast, with a number of communities still picking up the pieces.Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sai