https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/nightmare-scenario-category-5-hurricane-otis-devastates-acapulco/ Snippets from the link:
Otis unexpectedly intensified from a tropical storm with 65 mph winds to a Category 5 storm with 165 mph winds — an astonishing 105 mph increase — in the 24 hours before landfall. Rapid intensification is extremely dangerous because it leaves people little time to prepare for strong storms. The phenomenon is expected to happen more often as the climate warms.
This means that the most heavily developed areas of Acapulco (population just over 1 million) received the more powerful right-front winds of Otis, perhaps setting a record for the largest number of people ever to experience the eyewall of a Cat 5 storm.
The key factor in Otis’s rapid intensification, though, was the presence of a strong band of winds, known as a jet streak, embedded in the fast-flowing current of jet stream air to the north of Otis. As Otis pulled warm, moist air from the surface and pushed it aloft in its eyewall, the strong winds of this jet streak acted to ventilate the hurricane.
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