Category 5 Hurricane Otis in Mexico recorded a wind gust of 205 mph, one of the strongest ever recorded on Earth. The hurricane intensified rapidly, giving little time for evacuation. No major model predicted its intensity. The hurricane made landfall in Acapulco, causing significant damage. Hurricane Otis is the strongest Eastern Pacific hurricane to make landfall in the satellite era.
#HurricaneOtis was the strongest Eastern Pacific #hurricane to make landfall in the satellite era, and @NOAA satellites were watching Learn more about #Otis in the latest #EarthFromOrbit video: https://t.co/wWBMCrA2rL https://t.co/yrmemdVt6v
205-mph wind gust from Mexico’s Hurricane Otis ranks as the 5th highest in the world. https://t.co/pm8Ylq1Yar
A weather station in Acapulco measured one of the strongest wind gusts ever recorded, over 200 mph, during the landfall of Hurricane #Otis. The research team from UNAM posted the data after collecting the data in person. More: https://t.co/2FMbHDOoCQ Photo courtesy of UNAM. https://t.co/U2EiW2mXEN
No major model predicted Hurricane Otis—intensifying from a quotidian tropical storm to a category 5 disaster in just sixteen hours. There was no time to evacuate a city of a million, shredded by winds 100 mph faster than forecast one day before. (1/x) https://t.co/A67yZ00RXi
“Otis seems less like our conventional experience of hurricanes, according to which vulnerable communities are afforded by meteorologists perhaps a week of warning and a few calm days for evacuation, than of wildfires, which can spark so suddenly…” https://t.co/A67yZ00RXi
🌀💨 A Mexico weather station recorded a 205 mph wind gust during Category 5 Hurricane Otis, which is among the strongest wind gusts ever recorded on Earth. https://t.co/MFdnLBs17S