27 dead after Hurricane Otis makes landfall in Mexico as Category 5 storm

Chuymatt, 7 months ago

‘Brown people, don’t care’

Burn_The_Right, 7 months ago

From Tropical Storm to Cat 5 in under 24 hours… Holy shit. I mean, should we just go ahead and evacuate for tropical storms now? There is no time to prep for the worst when storms intensify to such extremes so quickly.

tangentzeroee, 7 months ago

In just 12 hours, Otis’ strength more than doubled from 70 mph (113 kph) winds to 160 mph (257 kph)

Source

Cat 1 starts at 74mph and cat 5 at 157mph. I’ve never heard of this fast of an intensification in my 36 years

Bipta, 7 months ago

Hyper-intensification seems to be the new normal.

Well, until 2030 when we upgrade to ultra-hyper-intensification.

Sir_Kevin, 7 months ago

It’s like the earth is using cheat codes to get rid of us

groknull, 7 months ago

Is the cheat code “f°551L Fu3L5”?

Coldgoron, 7 months ago

Wonder how often this has happened? Time to spiral down a rabbit hole.

chaogomu, 7 months ago

This article has done the work for you.

https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-rapidly-intensify-climate-warm-oceans-atlantic-1d301ac6ce12946a6ff98d38b6980922

Coldgoron, 7 months ago

Thanks for the info.

comador, 7 months ago

Another article

arstechnica.com/…/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-oti…

TL;DR : Hurricane Patricia from 2015 will be compared with Otis, but it’ll take researchers years to figure out the how and why their prediction models failed to see this.