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2023-10-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Hurricane Otis makes historic Category 5 landfall as 'nightmare scenario' unfolds near Acapulco, Mexico

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 'Apocalyptic' Hurricane Otis leaves trail of destruction in Mexico: Category 5 storm - strongest ever to make landfall on Pacific coast - turns Acapulco's roads to rivers

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 02:14|| 2023-10-26 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The Natl Hurr Center did poorly with this one. The rapid intensification (from about 60 mph to 160 mph peak winds in 24 hours) was not forecast and none of the numerical models warned about this.

The storm was small (which makes for fewer analytical calculations) and in addition, there were no functioning Doppler radars in Acapulco and some of the satellites weren't hitting near enough to the center of the storm to get best data.

Posted by lord garth 2023-10-26 09:26|| 2023-10-26 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Too focused on avoiding detection of unregistered shipping.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-26 11:55|| 2023-10-26 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Nat Hurr warned us that we'd be getting rain off of this. By the way, it's raining here.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-26 12:11|| 2023-10-26 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 They don't need radar, satellites or supercomputer models. Every storm is "the most powerfullest, devastatingest storm to ever come ashore. Ever!" once the media gets ahold of it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-26 12:41|| 2023-10-26 12:41|| Front Page Top

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