'There are no hurricanes on record even close to this intensity for this part of Mexico,' said the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico as a powerful Category 5 storm early Wednesday after intensifying from a tropical storm in a matter of hours, stunning forecasters who described the turn of events as a 'nightmare scenario.
'This is your planet on carbon,' longtime climate advocate Bill McKibben wrote late Tuesday. Otis is the most powerful hurricane to ever make landfall in Mexico. The storm's arrival in Mexico also marks the first time on record that an Eastern Pacific hurricane has made landfall as a Category 5.
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