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

https://abcnews.go.com/International/catastrophic-damage-hurricane-otis-makes-landfall-mexico-category/story?id=104272253

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Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y

Hyper-intensification seems to be the new normal.

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

Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

groknull@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

Is the cheat code “f°551L Fu3L5”?

Coldgoron@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

chaogomu@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)
Coldgoron@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Thanks for the info.

comador@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Another article

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/

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.

Chuymatt@artemis.camp · -1 pts · 2y

‘Brown people, don’t care’