AccuWeather meteorologists are keeping their eyes on a tropical depression that developed in the western Caribbean and crossed over Central America earlier this week. The moisture associated with that system has now emerged in the eastern Pacific and may not only become the next named tropical storm of the 2023 season, but conditions could allow...
Mexico is on alert for another tropical system that could rapidly intensify into a powerful hurricane before making landfall not far from where Otis roared ashore as a deadly Category 5 storm.Satellite images from before and after Hurricane Otis slammed Acapulco, Mexico, show an incredible amount of damage caused by the Category 5 hurricane in just a single day.
"Water temperatures are well into the 80s F in the region, which is well above the threshold of 80 degrees to foster tropical development," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Adam Douty said. Both low wind shear and very warm water were present when Otis rapidly intensified earlier this week. Otis transitioned from a 70-mph tropical storm to a 160-mph Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Otis made landfall near Acapulco with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph, which had deadly and devastating consequences. Otis was the only Category 5 hurricane on record to hit the Acapulco area.
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