“A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico,” the National Hurricane Center wrote after the northeast Pacific’s fastest storm strengthening on record.
People stand on a beach in Acapulco, Mexico, on Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Otis's expected arrival Wednesday morning. On Monday, forecasters called for a rather unremarkable tropical storm to strike Mexico’s west coast. But after the most extreme case of storm intensification ever observed in the northeast Pacific Ocean, the area is now bracing for a disastrous Category 5 hurricane to arrive early Wednesday. Acapulco, a city of about 1 million people, is directly in the crosshairs.
“This is an extremely serious situation for the Acapulco metropolitan area with the core of the destructive hurricane likely to come near or over that large city early on Wednesday,” the Hurricane Center wrote.When it barrels ashore, the Hurricane Center warned it will produce “catastrophic damage” near its center, both from a “life-threatening” storm surge or sudden rise in sea level and devastating winds that could produce tornado-like damage.
Scientists say extreme intensification of storms like Otis, fueled by abnormally warm ocean waters, is made much more probable because of human-caused climate change. Just this week, a study described increases in rapid intensification in Atlantic storms in the past several decades.
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