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Hurricane Otis was a compact but very powerful tropical cyclone which made a devastating landfall in October 2023 near Acapulco as a Category 5 hurricane. Otis was the first Pacific hurricane to make landfall at Category 5 intensity and surpassed Hurricane Patricia as the strongest landfalling Pacific hurricane on record.
Why did Hurricane Otis rapidly intensify into a Category 5 overnight? ... Watch as 165mph winds hit Mexico as Hurricane Otis makes landfall. Wednesday 25 October 2023 15:30, ...
Otis strengthened from a tropical storm into a major hurricane in the span of 12 hours on Tuesday before it hit Mexico’s south Pacific coast at around 12.25am local time with sustained winds of ...
October 26, 2023 at 11:18 AM. At least 27 people are dead and four people are missing in Acapulco after a “nightmare” Category-5 hurricane, Mexican officials said on Thursday. Hurricane Otis ...
Otis strengthened from a tropical storm to an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours before it slammed ashore as the strongest storm on record to hit this area and the Pacific ...
Hurricane Otis was a moderate Category 2 hurricane that threatened the Baja California Peninsula but dissipated before landfall. Otis was the fifteenth and final named storm and seventh hurricane of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season. The storm developed on September 28, 2005, off the western coast of Mexico, from a tropical wave that emerged ...
The 2023 Pacific hurricane season was an active and destructive Pacific hurricane season. In the Eastern Pacific basin (east of 140°W), 17 named storms formed; 10 of those became hurricanes, of which 8 strengthened into major hurricanes – double the seasonal average. [nb 1][2] In the Central Pacific basin (between 140°W and the ...
Hurricane Otis' eyewall hit the most heavily developed areas of Acapulco (pop. just over 1 million), perhaps setting a record for the largest number of people ever to experience the eyewall of a ...