ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Hurricane Otis on Tuesday rapidly strengthened to a major Category 3 storm as it headed toward Mexico's southern Pacific coast, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
"Additional strengthening is forecast, and Otis is expected to be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane when the center reaches the coast" by early Wednesday, it said.Maximum sustained winds increased to near 125 miles per hour, according to the NHC, which put Otis in the third-highest category on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
Soldiers were seen patrolling the beach of Acapulco, where visitors made the most of the calm before the storm. Hurricanes hit Mexico every year on both its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November.
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