| This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership. One of the few silver linings of hurricanes, relative to other natural disasters such as earthquakes or tornadoes, is that they usually develop and move slowly enough to give people time to prepare for them. Climate change is starting to rob humans of even that thin advantage. Hurricane Otis slammed into the resort city of Acapulco this week with winds of 165 miles per hour (265 kilometers per hour). Mexico's first Category 5 storm in history hitting a city of almost 700,000 people sounds scary enough. But the truly unnerving thing about Otis is that it was merely a tropical storm less than a day before making landfall. Cruising through warm water in the eastern Pacific, the storm "explosively intensified" in a matter of hours, in the words of the US National Hurricane Center. Climate change is disrupting the familiar rhythm of hurricanes in dangerous ways. It isn't necessarily making them more frequent, but it is making them much more likely to develop into Otis-like monsters overnight.
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