Hurricane Otis barreled into southern Mexico's Pacific coast early Wednesday morning, making landfall as a dangerous Category 5 storm before weakening over land. By 6 a.m. local time, Otis dropped ...

Otis, a run-of-the-mill tropical storm, was expected to only “gradually strengthen” en route to the coast. Instead, Otis intensified faster than any other eastern Pacific storm on record ...

The rapid intensification Hurricane Otis underwent in the hours before it slammed into southern Mexico is a symptom of the human-caused climate crisis, scientists say – and one that is becoming ...

On Tuesday morning, few meteorologists were talking about Tropical Storm Otis. By Wednesday morning, a “catastrophic storm” had made landfall near a populated city in Mexico, drawing attention ...

It set the stage for deadly floods and put Earth on track for a record-warm year. Hurricane Otis stunned scientists anew. It intensified more quickly than any tropical cyclone ever observed in the ...