Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm, is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning near Acapulco in Mexico, threatening to lash the coastal region with destructive winds and potentially “catastrophic storm surge,” forecasters say.
As of Tuesday night, Otis was packing winds of 160 mph with higher gusts while its core was about 55 miles south-southeast of Acapulco, moving north-northwest at 9 mph. Landfall is expected by early Wednesday near or just west of the city, a beach resort town on Mexico’s Pacific coast, the hurricane center said. A hurricane warning is in effect for coastal Punta Maldonado westward to Zihuatanejo.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 30 miles from the center while tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles, the hurricane center explained. Those winds are forecast to combine with a “potentially catastrophic storm surge” that could cause life-threatening coastal flooding near where it’s forecast to make landfall Wednesday morning. “Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves,” the hurricane center said.
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