Hurricane Otis made landfall directly on Acapulco, Mexico, as a violent Category 5 storm on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and causing extensive damage to the beach resort city.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The really scary bit is 24 hours before landfall it was a tropical storm.

    In 12 hours it went from tropical storm to a cat 4, going from 105kph to 233kph, then climbing up to 270kph winds before landfall.