EPAC: OTIS - Aftermath - Discussion

[doomhaMwx]

Yikes! This has all the recipes to be a major disaster. Unexpected explosive RI near the coast, and heading for potential category 5 landfall near a major city that only ~24 hours ago was expecting a tropical storm. Not to mention that it's extremely rare for them to experience a hurricane of this magnitude.

[FireRat]

Yikes! This has all the recipes to be a major disaster. Unexpected explosive RI near the coast, and heading for potential category 5 landfall near a major city that only ~24 hours ago was expecting a tropical storm.

Indeed, what Otis has done today and will do tomorrow morning is beyond nuts. I'm afraid today & tomorrow October 25 will be remembered for a long time.

[Astromanía]

He is going more east!!!!

[lilbump3000]

From a Tropical Storm this morning to now near Category 5 intensity. Insane!

[cycloneye]

He is going more east!!!!

To Acapulco?

[aspen]

The eye has been cooling over the last several frames. Perhaps some of the moderate shear is taking its toll just in time to prevent a Cat 5 landfall? It’ll still likely be 110-115 kt unless shear really picks up, though.

[Astromanía]

He is going more east!!!!

To Acapulco?

Yes

[Astromanía]

The eye has been cooling over the last several frames. Perhaps some of the moderate shear is taking its toll just in time to prevent a Cat 5 landfall? It’ll still likely be 110-115 kt unless shear really picks up, though.

??? What cooling?

[Hurricane2022]

This situation in Acapulco is very sad, a city that marked my childhood when it appeared in the famous Mexican series Chavo del 8...
May this beautiful city and the others that are in the middle of the path of this monster called Otis be able to suffer as little damage as possible and also that no life be taken

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[tolakram]

floater:

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=meso-meso3-13-24-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

[CrazyC83]

Popped in after having been so busy and with less to watch until now. This is just frightening to say the least. Truly a worst case scenario brewing.

[Iceresistance]

I just spotted this message from Discord, this is making me very, very worried...

He lives in Acapulco, the boarded up areas are just for the hotel area, they are also doing things as if Otis is not coming...

[Ntxw]

Hadn't been following but wow. What a shock...but El Nino in October was always a huge risk to the west MX coast. Prayers to them.

[CrazyC83]

We must remember there are about 1 million people in the Acapulco metro area. That's not much fewer than in the New Orleans metro. This would be like a tropical storm in the central Gulf rapidly charging up to category 4-5 as it came right into the marshlands within 150 miles of the coast.

[Category5Kaiju]

8 years ago, it was Patricia. Now it is Otis. El Nino Octobers in the EPAC can truly be relentless.

[Hypercane_Kyle]

Absolutely unreal intensification spurt. To think it was only forecast to be a tropical storm at landfall just days ago.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Couldn't have been more wrong.

This one's a male? Yet another tropical storm.

Otis wants to keep the pattern of major female - TS male alive.

[CrazyC83]

Absolutely unreal intensification spurt. To think it was only forecast to be a tropical storm at landfall just days ago.

https://i.imgur.com/z01Tdnc.png

If that eye can warm up, it could easily become a *strong* cat 5, like 175+ mph.

[Ntxw]

Has the pinhole eye and very cold tops. Very intense storm.

[Zonacane]