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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 ...
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.
Total damage from Otis was estimated to be $12–16 billion , making it the costliest Mexican hurricane on record, surpassing Hurricane Wilma in the Atlantic basin. [9] Otis became the first ever Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the basin and the Pacific Coast of Mexico and the Eastern Pacific basin and one of the strongest storms [188]
Hurricane Otis knocked out all communications and unleashed a “nightmare scenario” in Acapulco in southern Mexico on Wednesday morning. Tracking over the incredibly warm ocean water near the ...
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 from the western coast of Africa and traversed the Atlantic Ocean during the preceding several weeks.
Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico early on Wednesday as the strongest-ever storm to make landfall on the country’s west coast. Otis went from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane in only 12 ...
In a single day, Hurricane Otis went from a nuisance to a monster. The hurricane, which made landfall near Acapulco on Wednesday morning as a Category 5 hurricane, “explosively intensified” by ...
Hurricane Otis is tracking north through the country and is expected to dump five to 10 inches (13-25cm) of rain on Guerrero state with as much as 15 inches (38cm) possible in some areas. That ...