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NOAA\u2019s Hurricane Hunters just recorded a surface wind gust of ~190 MPH inside the eyewall of Hurricane Polo, while a deployed drone flying at 500 meters above sea-level measured winds exceeding 230 MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are watching one of the all-time most extreme Western Hemisphere storms on record unfold with a Super El Ni\u00f1o behind it. It has reached Cat5 twice already and there really needs to be another mark: Cat6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOAA\u2019s Hurricane Hunters just recorded a surface wind gust of ~190 MPH inside the eyewall of Hurricane Polo, while a deployed drone flying at 500 meters above sea-level measured winds… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcLzgyNTM0MDQ3OF8xMzgyNDg4NjQ2OTA1NjEyXzI0Nzg3OTc3MDkyMTI3MzI5Mjlfbi53ZWJwP2ZpdD0zMzUlMkM1OTcmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJIdXJyaWNhbmUgUG9sbyB3aW5kcyBleGNlZWRpbmcgMjMwIE1QSCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.C0zcI6LqUdbAm9wDkeoDK-K5Xfmfcls7MzqaCHhSo68MQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA5XC84MjUzNDA0NzhfMTM4MjQ4ODY0NjkwNTYxMl8yNDc4Nzk3NzA5MjEyNzMyOTI5X24ud2VicCIsInR4dCI6Ikh1cnJpY2FuZSBQb2xvIHdpbmRzIGV4Y2VlZGluZyAyMzAgTVBIIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.MDeJTvcydzd2R7-0jygVxRfzsaO5LnnfKyuUGcejtaYMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[694],"tags":[17551,16971,1053,17550,15253,17552,17554,17553],"class_list":["post-82326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-by-o","tag-category-5","tag-extreme-weather","tag-hurricane-hunters","tag-hurricane-polo","tag-noaa","tag-super-el-nino","tag-weather-drone","tag-wind-gusts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82329,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82326\/revisions\/82329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}