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13 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Text book RI. Major devastating wind event for PV. The track just to the south should empty the whole bay. This was a good chase cane!

Looks like it's headed south of PV for now, and given its size they might be spared the worst if it doesn't take on a more notherly heading. 

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Impressive lightning currently around the eyewall. Pretty explosive intensification at the worst time. Lidia is a compact hurricane however. Should be a small region of hurricane force winds, though that will obviously be intense, especially with the abrupt rise in elevation for whoever or whatever is at that point inland.09016b58d1ff164117092195ef9331d1.gif

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Interesting to note that the upper-level shear values over Lidia are very high based on satellite analysis. However, notice how there is a weak region of the mid-level shear pivoting with the circulation. Dead giveaway that Lidia's forward motion within the circulation is remaining stacked due to mid-level flow and low-level flow swinging ENE with the trough. It's put that same core in a region of intense divergence aloft; ventilation for high instability. Lucky for RI of the TC, unlucky for those at landfall point.af2f686f30099ed7605f6f704c9b8ef3.gif06a0c6110e4b21fd0cdfadb6a555211a.gif998c18708646f052182d5d51820c4bec.gif

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35 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Landfall at peak intensity and intensifying rapidly. Wish there was footage from the landfall point but thankfully this kept heading south into extremely rural countryside

Josh morgerman is trying to make it to the landfall point seems like a pretty risky proposition.

 

The eye has filled in right before landfall. Likely weakened back to cat 3, but too little too late of course 

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Josh morgerman is trying to make it to the landfall point seems like a pretty risky proposition.
 
The eye has filled in right before landfall. Likely weakened back to cat 3, but too little too late of course 
Not so sure. Mid-level cloudfill in the eye at the timing of landfall may not matter. A product of shear, but might've been too late before induced weakening. The eyewall was pretty intense and intact. Just bad timing for landfall.
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31 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Wow, somehow Otis has rapidly strengthened into a major. FL winds to 110 kts and unflagged SFMR values near 100 kts. Absolutely insane high end season going on over in the EPAC

The 03UTC forecast this morning had it max out at 70mph. I think the models were even less enthusiastic. One of the biggest forecast errors in a while, for a landfilling hurricane anyway.

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Acapulco is in trouble from this one if it continues to outpace intensity forecasts/doesn't fall apart on approach. Current official track essentially puts the RFQ right over the bay/city. Some Pauline '97 vibes with how it parallels the coast for a bit too, which produced extreme flooding in Guerrero.

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Two cat 4 LFs back to back in same season… 
Otis might just be the worst of the EPAC due to location of landfall. Hopefully, it will weaken just before the eyewall comes ashore. Regardless, that's a bad spot for flooding and population, even if it does not hold Cat 4 through landfall. It's not moving all that fast.
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1 hour ago, Windspeed said:
1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said:
Two cat 4 LFs back to back in same season… 

Otis might just be the worst of the EPAC due to location of landfall. Hopefully, it will weaken just before the eyewall comes ashore. Regardless, that's a bad spot for flooding and population, even if it does not hold Cat 4 through landfall. It's not moving all that fast.

Definitely, it's also moving a bit east of the forecast track (at least the early afternoon one) and should landfall fairly close to Acapulco. Even if it weakens as it comes ashore, the surge has already built up and the damage is done. 

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