Hurricane Otis - Zero to Cat 5 in less than 60 hours

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Roger Wilco

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Now predicted to make landfall as a cat 5 in the Acapulco metro area.

This part of Mexico has not experienced anything like this, and they had no warning.
 
IronWing

IronWing

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GodisanAtheist said:
-On one hand, we could use the water...
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Yep, here in Arizona we're like "Come on, baby!" with every Pacific hurricane. We caught some remnant rain from Hurricane Norma yesterday but not enough to do much good. We need a storm to ride straight up the Sea of Cortez and stall for a few days. Last time it happened was in 2000.
 
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Brainonska511

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MrSquished said:
nothing abnormal about climate events these days, pay no attention.
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Average American: climate change is probably a thing and we should probably do something about it, but also, you can't tell me I can't drive my gas guzzler through my endless sprawling landscape and gas has to stay cheap.
 
IronWing

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Brainonska511 said:
Average American: climate change is probably a thing and we should probably do something about it, but also, you can't tell me I can't drive my gas guzzler through my endless sprawling landscape and gas has to stay cheap.
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Well, yeah. :p

Bread and circuses was for Romans. Americans demand gasoline and circuses.
 
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Brainonska511

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sdifox said:
oceanservice.noaa.gov

What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?

Hurricanes and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon: tropical cyclones. A tropical cyclone is a generic term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has closed, low-level circulation.
oceanservice.noaa.gov oceanservice.noaa.gov

One day you will learn.
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From your own link, hurricane would be used for tropical cyclone-type system of sufficient strength hitting California.
In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used.
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KMFJD

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www.lemonde.fr

Mexican city of Acapulco devastated by Hurricane Otis

Everything from cars and sailboats to power poles, roofs and trees seemed to go flying as the hurricane passed through, with winds exceeding 300 km/h. According to initial estimates, 27 people died and 80% of hotels were destroyed.
www.lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr


going to take a while to rebuild from the sounds of it, 80% of the hotels destroyed
 
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