Sep 25, 2026 · 11 min · 7 segments
In this Weekly Weather Brief, hosts and meteorologists Emily Gracey and Kerrin Jeromin discuss weather topics that captured their attention, including Hurricane Polo's record-breaking rapid…
I think I wanna start, I wanna start in the tropics, Emily, because that's what's been catching-
What didn't? The Pacific is just going absolutely bonkers this year, as was expected, and sure enough, it just keeps pumping out storm after storm, and impressive storm after storm.
We have three tropical entities with more coming, and, uh, the biggest one of course, Hurricane Polo, which just exploded to this monster storm this week.
Well, something that I noticed that was interesting is the hurricane hunters flew into it, and that's not something you normally see this time of year, is them headed to the West Coast to go fly into these storms.
But yeah, NOAA Hurricane Hunters flew into Polo, and I s- Did you see this video of, it's them flying into the eye, and it's wild.
This thing also went from like a tropical storm to a Cat 5 hurricane in record time.
It's the fastest intensification in the Western Hemisphere, so wild there with Polo.
Extremely impressive, and the video you were just talking about, I mean, if you, if you are listening and you have not seen these videos, um, it's just wild.
It looks like you're flying right into this magical environment, blue sky up ahead, and this wall of clouds ahead of you.
But then you know what is surrounding that wall is just ferocious winds over, you know, 160-plus miles per hour.
Yeah, they call it the stadium effect 'cause it kind of has that look like a stadium-
I think I wanna start, I wanna start in the tropics, Emily, because that's what's been catching-
What didn't? The Pacific is just going absolutely bonkers this year, as was expected, and sure enough, it just keeps pumping out storm after storm, and impressive storm after storm.
We have three tropical entities with more coming, and, uh, the biggest one of course, Hurricane Polo, which just exploded to this monster storm this week.
Well, something that I noticed that was interesting is the hurricane hunters flew into it, and that's not something you normally see this time of year, is them headed to the West Coast to go fly into these storms.
But yeah, NOAA Hurricane Hunters flew into Polo, and I s- Did you see this video of, it's them flying into the eye, and it's wild.
This thing also went from like a tropical storm to a Cat 5 hurricane in record time.
It's the fastest intensification in the Western Hemisphere, so wild there with Polo.
Extremely impressive, and the video you were just talking about, I mean, if you, if you are listening and you have not seen these videos, um, it's just wild.
It looks like you're flying right into this magical environment, blue sky up ahead, and this wall of clouds ahead of you.
But then you know what is surrounding that wall is just ferocious winds over, you know, 160-plus miles per hour.
Yeah, they call it the stadium effect 'cause it kind of has that look like a stadium-
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