Hurricane Otis Special

Host Jen Carfagno with Guest Dr. Greg Postel

With a raging El Nino in effect, the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was bound to be above average.  However, the number of storms that have impacted land has been surprising!  From October 9th to October 25th, western Mexico has been hit by FOUR consecutive tropical cyclones.  Three were hurricanes at landfall, and the one we want to focus on today is Hurricane Otis.  First thought to make landfall as either a strong tropical storm or a weak hurricane ended up becoming the strongest landfalling hurricane in the Eastern Pacific in under 24 hours!  How did this happen and what can we as an industry learn about this storm to help improve forecasting and communications in the future…?

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