Hurricane Lee is still a powerful category 3 storm but at one point was a Category 5 hurricane.
Updated:ACAPULCO, Guerrero — Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane early Wednesday, bringing dangerous winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and surrounding towns, stirring memories of a 1997 storm that killed dozens of people.
Otis was about 60 miles north-northwest of Acapulco with its maximum sustained winds decreasing to 110 mph and moving at 10 mph . The center of Otis is expected to move farther inland over southern Mexico through Wednesday night. Videos from hotel guests in Acapulco posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, as the storm came ashore showed blinding horizontal rain and howling winds.
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