ACAPULCO, Mexico — Survivors of the Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people and devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco are getting desperate amid a slow government response, worrying that the focus will remain on repairing infrastructure for the city’s economic engine of tourism instead of helping the neediest. Despite hopes of incoming … Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco spent Thursday searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping that aid would come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis. The Pacific storm had strengthened with shocking swiftness before slamming into the … Read more
(ACAPULCO, Mexico) — Mexican authorities gave the first human toll for Hurricane Otis’ destruction along the country’s Pacific coast Thursday: at least 27 dead and four missing. Tens of thousands of residents in damaged homes without electricity awaited help more than a day after Otis roared ashore in Acapulco. Federal Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez … Read more
MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 27 people were killed as Hurricane Otis crashed near Acapulco, a system that rapidly intensified into the most powerful cyclone on record to have hit Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Mexican Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said at least four people were also still missing in Acapulco after the unexpectedly intense storm … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, early Wednesday as a Category 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds, the product of the most extreme storm intensification on record in the northeast Pacific Ocean. “A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico,” the National Hurricane Center wrote in … Read more
Hurricane Norma has weakened slightly but remains a major storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast ByThe Associated Press October 19, 2023, 11:52 AM This satellite image provided by NOAA on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, shows Hurricane Storm Norma approaching the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula on Mexico’s Pacific coast. (NOAA via AP) The Associated … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Hurricane Lidia, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 mph, roared ashore Tuesday night about 35 miles south-southwest of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s west coast. The major hurricane was expected to unleash flooding rains, destructive winds and a dangerous ocean surge. It became the second storm to strike Mexico’s … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Massive swells battered the northeast Caribbean on Saturday as Hurricane Lee churned close by by open waters as a Class 3 storm. The storm, which isn’t forecast to make landfall, was positioned 385 miles (620 kilometers) east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. It had winds of as much as 115 … Read more
Early Tuesday morning, Tropical Storm Idalia strengthened into Hurricane Idalia, charting a course for Florida’s west coast and panhandle. Its most sustained winds have already reached almost 100 miles per hour, and it’s anticipated to maintain feeding on exceptionally heat ocean waters and intensifying earlier than making landfall early Wednesday. It’s going to pound Florida—together … Read more
We’ve received a storm coming, perhaps. The remainder of the 2023 hurricane season might be busier than beforehand thought, based on new projections from the Nationwide Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Hurricanes and Local weather | Excessive Earth Ocean temperatures and total air temperatures have been alarmingly excessive this yr, prompting NOAA to extend the variety … Read more