Hurricane Polo, an extremely powerful Category 4 storm, continued to swirl off Mexico's southwestern coast early Wednesday but was only expected to skirt the Pacific shoreline over the next few days, not make landfall, as it continues along its path. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Polo's maximum sustained winds — which had rapidly intensified Tuesday, reaching as high as a 180 mph — decreased somewhat to 150 mph, not far beneath the 157 mph threshold which would make it a Category 5, the strongest on the hurricane scale. The storm is expected to fluctuate in intensity over the next few days, forecasters said, but remain a "very powerful major hurricane." Follow updates in the link in bio. #hurricane #mexico #pacific