Satellite image of Hurricane Patricia at 0347Z Friday, October 23, 2015 (11:47 pm EDT Thursday).
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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Holy crap, 3rd lowest recorded pressure. Thats a bit deal.
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Globull Warming....
Bush’s fault.
I can’t help but dash to noaa and look at the images.. Something about hurricanes are awesome. Thanks for posting images.
I looked up what scientists were working on that could stop a hurricane. Said nuke wouldn’t do anything except spread radiation.
Nuke would work on a tornado, not a hurricane.
I can’t recall the exact formula, but I think a hurricane expends scores of a nuke’s worth of energy in a second.
Good Lord!!!!
Would work on a tornado though? hmm. interesting.
what’s the pressure business, being the lowest ever or something?
Pressure is typically the meteorologically significant way of determining strength, not wind speed. Thats more of a ‘general public’ thing.
Patricia will generate years of research. All ultra-low pressure systems do. They’re a big deal in the world of real science, not the Lysenko crap of Glo-bull warming.
200mph
Patty is harshing my weekend
It’s incredible.
It’s not nearly as important as the poor people who will suffer terribly from this thing.
But obummer will put it to use as will hitlery now and in the future.
and the press says she was a smash at the Beng. hearing.
I hate them. So much. No. Really. You can’t imagine.
mb are dropping 880
HOLY CRAP!
The all time record IIRC is 870 from a west Pacific typhoon.
Thats incredible.
Just checked records. Mods, keep this in breaking, this is going to absolutely smash Mexico if it strikes at this strength.
Patricia has tied 3 other western Pacific hurricanes as the 5th most powerful in measured history. It is the most powerful western hemisphere hurricane in measured history.
Another crisis for 0 to exploit. More refugees!
Thank goodness no one lives in Mexico anymore.
Yes
People continue to comment, so looking at the link brings a lot of current info. They’re indicating that Patricia is continuing to get stronger.
I can’t comment on weatherunderground, I’d be banned in under a second bashing AGW heads in.
I know.
I've been thinking about how we can fight back. My idea is to reduce the "news" to:
"Hillary's emails show that she knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack, and she deliberately LIED to the American people about a video being the cause."Anything more is too complex to penetrate liberal defense mechanisms.
We have to make this the Facebook meme, not "Hillary was masterful."
If necessary, the meme can be reduced too, "Hillary's emails show she lied about Benghazi."
205mph sustained winds, strongest ever recorded.
This thing is going to level the SW coast of Mexico.
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