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"Hurricane Otis Special"
Episode 294

"Hurricane Otis Special"

Weather Geeks · Weather Group Television

November 1, 202327m 29s

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Guest: Dr. Greg Postel & Jen Carfagno, The Weather Channel


Introduction: 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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