What Hurricane Polo's Remnants Are Doing to the US

Hurricane Polo dissipated over northern Mexico on September 29. Its water kept moving. After one of the fastest intensifications ever recorded in the eastern Pacific, Polo crossed Mexico and fell apart over land. But the tropical moisture it had lifted from the ocean continued north into the United States. In this documentary, we follow that water from California’s coastline through the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico and into Texas and the Plains. We explain how the remnants of a dead hurricane can still produce flash flooding more than 1,000 miles inland, why mountains and cold fronts can squeeze extraordinary amounts of rain from tropical air, and why dry desert terrain can flood so quickly. Polo’s winds disappeared. The moisture did not. And that invisible journey through the atmosphere is one of the least understood ways a hurricane can keep affecting people long after the storm itself is gone. -- DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA Commercial Purposes: [email protected] Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@insanecuriosity Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/insanecuriosity Instagram: https://instagram.com/insanecuriositythereal Twitter: https://twitter.com/insanecurio Facebook: https://facebook.com/InsaneCuriosity Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/insane-curiosity-46b928277/ Our Website: https://insanecuriosity.com/ -- Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com ,Elon Musk/SpaceX/ Flickr https://app.envato.com/music / https://artlist.io/ -- 0:00 The Hurricane Ended. Its Water Didn’t. 0:35 How Polo Became a Category 5 1:56 Two Landfalls Across Mexico 3:08 California Got the Swell First 4:30 How a Dead Hurricane Floods a Desert 5:57 The Desert Was Only the First Stop 7:16 The Water Reaches Texas and the Plains 8:16 What the Forecasts Couldn’t Guarantee 9:01 Why the Pacific Keeps Producing These Storms 10:25 Where Polo’s Water Finally Went -- #insanecuriosity #hurricanepolo #hurricanes