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DEVELOPING · 9 OCT → 19 OCT 2026 · 11 EDITIONS · 30 OUTLETS

Hurricane Simon weakens after lashing Mexico’s Pacific coast

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 15 30 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 11 Oct 12:21 UTC · Category 4 Hurricane Simon nears Mexico’s Pacific coast 11 Oct 18:21 UTC · Category 4 Hurricane Simon approaches Mexico’s Pacific coast 12 Oct 00:19 UTC · Category 4 Hurricane Simon threatens Mexico’s Pacific coast 12 Oct 06:58 UTC · Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 3 as heavy rain floods Mexico’s Pacific coast 12 Oct 12:23 UTC · Hurricane Simon weakens but floods Mexico’s Pacific coast 13 Oct 00:23 UTC · Two dead, 10 missing as storms batter Mexico 13 Oct 07:02 UTC · Hurricane Simon weakens after lashing Mexico’s Pacific coast

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 7 HEADLINES

  1. 11 Oct, 12:21 UTC

    Category 4 Hurricane Simon nears Mexico’s Pacific coast

  2. 11 Oct, 18:21 UTC

    Category 4 Hurricane Simon approaches Mexico’s Pacific coast

  3. 12 Oct, 00:19 UTC

    Category 4 Hurricane Simon threatens Mexico’s Pacific coast

  4. 12 Oct, 06:58 UTC

    Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 3 as heavy rain floods Mexico’s Pacific coast

  5. 12 Oct, 12:23 UTC

    Hurricane Simon weakens but floods Mexico’s Pacific coast

  6. 13 Oct, 00:23 UTC

    Two dead, 10 missing as storms batter Mexico

  7. 13 Oct, 07:02 UTC

    Hurricane Simon weakens after lashing Mexico’s Pacific coast

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Hurricane Simon · 7 outlets
  • Puerto Vallarta · 7 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Baja California · from 12 Oct 22:23, 2 outlets
  • Las Vegas · from 12 Oct 22:23, 2 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

  • storm it: 4 (3 from 10 Oct 10:01) → 3 (1 from 12 Oct 04:03)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.