From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.

This is The Daily.

Today, Hurricane Otis, which killed more than 2,000 people in southern Mexico this week,

has revealed a new kind of threat that meteorologists fear will become more and more common.

A severe hurricane that arrives with shockingly little warning or time to prepare.

My colleague, Judson Jones, explains.

It's Friday, October 27th.

Judson, we're coming to you because you are a meteorologist on the staff of the Times,

which is a pretty new development, I have to think, because I didn't actually know that

the Times had a meteorologist on our staff.

So I came on about a year ago, last Halloween, and it all came about because the Times wanted

to develop an extreme weather team.

We often say extreme weather is the fingerprint of climate change, so a lot of times it's

the evidence that the world is changing.

And so by bringing on a meteorologist and a data journalism team, my team is responsible

for diving into the data of these extremes.

Got it.

So the reality that climate change and extreme weather are deeply interwoven is why you

are at the Times.

Absolutely.

Well, let's turn to the reason we're talking to you right now, which is an extreme weather

event that happened just a couple of days ago, Hurricane Odess.

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