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A little something about that thing we euphemistically call Climate Change...
Quote: “A nightmare scenario is unfolding.”
Those are not words you want to hear from the National Hurricane Center. Otis was supposed to hit Acapulco, Mexico, as a tropical storm, but when it made landfall on Wednesday, it was a Category 5 hurricane—stunning the scientists who had been tracking it.
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Just before reaching land, Otis passed over a pocket of hot ocean, making the storm much stronger before anyone had time to prepare. At least 27 people were killed and four remain missing. One hurricane expert at MIT told the AP that “the models completely blew it.”
Because of warming oceans, researchers expect this to happen more often.
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