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Hurricane Patricia Hits Category 5 En Route to Mexican Coast
weatherunderground.com ^ | 10/23/15 | Dr. Jeff Masters

Posted on 10/23/2015 2:08:35 AM PDT by uglybiker

History is being made tonight in the Northeast Pacific as Hurricane Patricia churns about 200 miles off the coast of Mexico, south-southwest of Manzanillo. With its 11 pm EDT Thursday advisory, the National Hurricane Center upgraded Patricia to Category 5, with top sustained winds of 160 mph and a central pressure of 924 millibars. Hurricane warnings are now in effect for the coast from San Blas to Punta San Telmo, including Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, with a hurricane watch and tropical storm warning eastward to Lazaro Cardenas. Update: Late Thursday night, an Air Force Hurricane Hunter flight captured some of the most extreme observations ever recorded in 70 years of reconnaissance activity. Based on flight-level winds of 179 knots (206 mph), NHC upgraded Patricia's strength at 12:30 am EDT Friday to 185 mph. The estimated surface pressure of 892 mb is the lowest on record for the Northeast Pacific, and it ranks #3 for the entire Western Hemisphere behind only Wilma (882 mb, on October 19, 2005) and Gilbert (888 mb, on September 13, 1988). A surface reading of 892 mb was recorded at Key West during the Labor Day hurricane (September 2, 1935).


Satellite image of Hurricane Patricia at 0347Z Friday, October 23, 2015 (11:47 pm EDT Thursday).


Visible satellite image of Hurricane Patricia close to nightfall, at 2345Z (7:45 pm EDT) Thursday, October 22. 2015. Image credit: NOAA and CIMMS/SSEC/University of Wisconsin.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricanepatricia; hurricanes; manzanillo; mexico; patricia; puertovallarta; tropical; weather
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Oops, streaming site down.


121 posted on 10/23/2015 12:31:59 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: onyx

For those interested, what it’s like piercing the eye wall of Hurricane Patricia from the hurricane hunter aircraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRArAZfWGp8


122 posted on 10/23/2015 12:41:53 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

but almost 50 percent dont care. :)

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123 posted on 10/23/2015 12:43:46 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: uglybiker

bttt


124 posted on 10/23/2015 1:01:48 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Crazieman; raybbr

Oh.


125 posted on 10/23/2015 1:05:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: dp0622

Webcams set up along Mexico’s coastline are streaming live video as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Pacific Ocean prepares to make landfall.

Here’s page of four live webcam’s showing Hurricane hitting coast...

http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/WATCH-LIVE-—Webcams-Stream-Live-Video-of-Hurricanes-APproach-336379171.html


126 posted on 10/23/2015 4:36:55 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

They have no protective dune line and structures are not elevated. The storm surge is going to just tear up some oceanfront property. That would be true of just a run-of-the-mill hurricane. If this remains a 5 it’ll take it all down to concrete slab several blocks inland.


127 posted on 10/23/2015 4:42:58 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: combat_boots

128 posted on 10/23/2015 4:43:34 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

129 posted on 10/23/2015 4:46:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

See the waterspout in that squall line?


130 posted on 10/23/2015 4:46:58 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: caww
La-Manzanilla Mexico


131 posted on 10/23/2015 5:18:03 PM PDT by caww
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yes...


132 posted on 10/23/2015 5:36:23 PM PDT by caww
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To: uglybiker

This hurricane was caused by Al Gore’s private jet. FU Al, you soon to be murderer.


133 posted on 10/23/2015 5:37:42 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: caww

134 posted on 10/23/2015 5:39:05 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
What is the black stuff falling from the sky in the bottom picture?
135 posted on 10/23/2015 5:42:30 PM PDT by Vision (Why does everyone pretend that Obama is mentally well?)
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To: kingu

WoW! What a ride uh!!


136 posted on 10/23/2015 5:43:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: Vision

Don’t know...might be formation of water funnel or something like...


137 posted on 10/23/2015 6:02:43 PM PDT by caww
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To: Vision

Rainwater shooting out of a gutter on the roof of the building, above where the person with the camera was located.


138 posted on 10/23/2015 6:05:09 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: caww

what’s the current threat to the states?


139 posted on 10/23/2015 6:07:29 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

Mostly Texas....here’s a good video of the force of the hurricane as it hit the coastal area....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNexhnz15IY


140 posted on 10/23/2015 6:31:22 PM PDT by caww
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