Hurricane Otis' growth to Category 5 storm surprised forecasters, but why?

Hurricane Otis slammed into the southern-Pacific coast of Mexico and devastated the tourist community of Acapulco, but it has left people questioning why the storm hit so hard when most forecasts said it would graze by the region as a minimal hurricane.

According to meteorologists and experts at Canada and the U.S. hurricane centres, there are various factors that could have contributed to modelling getting it wrong, including the storm rapidly intensifying more than is usually seen in these storms.

Sean Previl explains where things went wrong and why the storm may also help in improving forecasting in the future.

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