Wind and rain from the ferocious hurricane damaged infrastructure and turned forests brown.
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Otis went from tropical storm to major hurricane in a matter of hours before barreling into Mexico’s Pacific Coast as a category 5 storm.
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Lidia quickly strengthened from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane before making landfall near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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The storm delivered torrential rain to parts of Southern California, Nevada, and Mexico, leaving flooded streets and power outages in its wake.
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The major hurricane was expected to weaken before delivering heavy rain to Mexico and Southern California.
The island nation braced for the second major storm in less than a week.
A tropical storm neared Hawaii in July 2023, while a typhoon farther west made landfall in China.