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Meet "Stunningly Catastrophic" Patricia, The World's Strongest Storm Ever Is About To Hit Mexico
"Stunning, historic, mind-boggling, and catastrophic" is how Weather Underground's Jeff Masters sums up Hurricane Patricia, which intensified to an incredible-strength Category 5 storm with 200 mph winds overnight as it approaches the Mexican coast. As The NY Times reports, The World Meteorological Organization warned that the hurricane’s strength was comparable to that of Typhoon Haiyan, which caused devastation in the Philippines in 2013, and so Mexico has declared a state of emergency for Puerto Vallarta (with officials warning that storm surges could cause waves of up to 39 feet) as she is forecast to hit the coast between 6 and 10pm ET.
As Weather Undergound reports,
At 2:46 am EDT October 23, 2015 an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft measured a central pressure of 880 mb in Patricia, making it the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere. The aircraft measured surface winds of 200 mph, which are the highest reliably-measured surface winds on record for a tropical cyclone, anywhere on the Earth. The previous strongest Eastern Pacific hurricane was Hurricane Linda of 1997, with a pressure of 902 mb (estimated from satellite imagery.)
Patricia the fastest-intensifying Western Hemisphere hurricane on record
Patricia's central pressure dropped an astonishing 100 mb in 24 hours, making it the fastest-intensifying hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere. Patricia's pressure at 5 am EDT Thursday, October 22, 2015 was 980 mb, and was 880 mb at 5 am EDT Friday. The previous record was a drop of 97 mb in 24 hours for Hurricane Wilma of 2005 (between 1200 UTC 18 October - 1200 UTC 19 October), according to the official NHC report for the storm.
Patricia's intensification rate was very close to the WMO-recognized world record for fasting-intensifying tropical cyclone: 100 millibars in just under 24 hours by Super Typhoon Forrest in the Northwest Pacific in 1983.
Patricia's 200 mph sustained winds make it the 3rd strongest tropical cyclone in world history (by 1-minute averaged wind speed.)
Officially, here are the strongest tropical cyclones in world history, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the National Hurricane Center (using 1-minute averaged sustained winds):
- Super Typhoon Nancy (1961), 215 mph winds, 882 mb. Made landfall as a Cat 2 in Japan, killing 191 people.
- Super Typhoon Violet (1961), 205 mph winds, 886 mb pressure. Made landfall in Japan as a tropical storm, killing 2 people.
- Super Typhoon Ida (1958), 200 mph winds, 877 mb pressure. Made landfall as a Cat 1 in Japan, killing 1269 people.
- Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013), 195 mph winds, 895 mb pressure. Made landfall in the Philippines at peak strength.
- Super Typhoon Kit (1966), 195 mph winds, 880 mb. Did not make landfall.
- Super Typhoon Sally (1964), 195 mph winds, 895 mb. Made landfall as a Cat 4 in the Philippines.
However, it is now recognized (Black 1992) that the maximum sustained winds estimated for typhoons during the 1940s to 1960s were too strong.
Some Mexican regions are at dire risk...
Hurricane #Patricia, the strongest storm on record in the E. Pacific, is bound for Mexico! https://t.co/ouR20nJ6Xp pic.twitter.com/lCj3aQG7RO
— Elliot Abrams (@accuElliot) October 23, 2015
The city of Puerto Vallarta and some of Mexico’s most popular resorts are in the path of the storm. Flooding and landslides are expected near coastal areas...
Satellite loops early Friday afternoon showed that Patricia’s cloud tops had begun to warm, indicating weakening, and with wind shear now a moderate 10 - 20 knots and interaction with land beginning to occur, Patricia will likely weaken to 155 - 175 mph winds by landfall. The storm's expected turn toward the northeast has begun, and the storm is beginning to accelerate toward the coast of the Mexican state of Colima.
Regardless of northern motion per last advisory #Patricia jogging northeast now. Getting concerned about Manzanillo pic.twitter.com/qkDniGXM7Q
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) October 23, 2015
At particular risk is the city of Manzaillo, a regional center that straddles the back of a bay spanning several miles. On its current track, it apperas that Patricia could make landfall sometime between 6:00 and 10:00 pm EDT just to the northwest of Manzanillo--a trajectory that raises the odds of a catastrophic storm surge in or near Manzanillo. Patricia’s strongest winds are confined to a relatively small area, with hurricane-force winds only spanning a range of 30 miles from Patricia’s center. Category 5 winds of 156+ mph cover an area 15 miles across. Wherever those winds are focused, we can expect gigantic waves atop a devastating surge.
An unnamed 1959 hurricane--the deadliest in Northeast Pacific history, with an estimated 1800 direct and indirect fatalities--struck near Manzanillo on October 27...
As the storm approached, posts on Instagram showed people trying to leave Puerto Vallarta. One user posted a photograph of a message from a nearby resort that warned people to return home for their safety. “If this is not possible, please wait for further instructions for a possible evacuation,” the notice read.
In the United States, only three Category 5 storms that made landfall have been recorded, Mr. Feltgen said: a 1935 hurricane that killed more than 400 people; Hurricane Camille, which hit Mississippi and killed 244 people in 1969; and Hurricane Andrew, which hit Florida in 1992, killing at least 10 people there and three in the Bahamas.
But Hurricane Patricia is “uncharted territory,” as The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore summed it up ominously...
Historic #Patricia God help these people in its path. pic.twitter.com/hLgDM3Xsz1
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) October 23, 2015
As Bloomberg concludes,
“We can’t underestimate the magnitude of this phenomenon,” Roberto Ramirez, chief of Mexico’s National Water Commission, said in a message streamed on the Internet Friday, urging residents to take precautions or evacuate. “A Category 5 hurricane could lift cars, destroy houses that aren’t built with steel, rebar and cement, and sweep people away.”
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No worries, the FED's are ready to transfer billions of digital zeros created out of thin air and backed by US taxpayers ASAP.
Mexico City could use a good catastrophe!
More amigos heading north!
Im so old I remember when they raised the Price of Oil on us whenever this kinda shit happened before wtf!
Why is this posted on ZH?
Why is this posted on ZH?
Are you a newbie to ZH or what? All kinds of articles are posted on ZH on a regular basis . . . . anything that is newsworthy, humorous or ridiculous really. It's not just a financial site although financial stuff is posted more often than any other type of article.
It's about Mexicans...who *really* cares?
Fear porn warms the soul ;)
If Patty has 200 mph winds extending 30 miles from the center that is the equivalent of an F3/F4 tornado that is about 60 MILES WIDE!!! The destruction in a populated area would be mind boggling as even at F3 wind levels (158-206 mph) the damage is described as follows:
Severe damage - Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forest uprooted; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown.F4 level winds (207-260 mph) are even worse:
Devastating damage - Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown away some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated.Prayers to everyone in the storms path. May your families stay safe.
The Filipinos wanted the US air base removed and they were HAARPED, then the Japanese got HAARPED, which resulted in second deadliest Typhoon in the countries history (record was 1881). And we have Fukushima . I wonder what the Mexicans have done; I believe it has to do with the proposal to legalize drugs in order to remove the CIA backed drug cartels power and influence.
The Fukushima Disaster Was Triggered With HAARP!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUDm01UpFn4
USA Threatened Japan with HAARP-Caused Earthquake, Before Fukushima!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBg9qQovGA
We Will Own the Weather by 2025 - http://www.space.com/1725-military-weather.html
US Navy Deploying HAARP Tesla Weapon Platform SBX-1 to Hit North Korea with Earthquakes (HD)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhME0dD5Ds
I believe it has to do with the proposal to legalize drugs in order to remove the CIA backed drug cartels power and influence.
You might be on to something there. The US has already pulled financial support from Mexico for the same reasons (of course they would never admit that though).
It will most likely do about $300 million in improvements!
With the Global Warming hype and BS I'd bet they're fudging the numbers,like they did with Ivan and Katrina,,, but would never be able to prove it.
An indication though would be hyping it after the storm. These agencies lie so much about everything one cannot believe anything they say at face value, especially NOAA who heads the list of GW bullshitting.
jmo...
Oops! We meant 200 KPH.
California needs some rain. It should go further north and drop some rain.
That is a very perfect looking hurricane. Total signs of HAARP at work.
Look at the news this week. Benghazi hearings, more info on the Doctors Without Borders attack, MOAR global easing. A massive hurricane gets all of this off the front page.
Well, if you studied HAARP flashes and watch the nation's weather radar, you saw the evidence of two giant flashes, one after the other, covering the nation top to bottom and moving east just two days before this "hurricane" became a "monster" and blew everything else out of the headlines.
Talk about man-made climate change! I think they're getting good with HAARP./sarc
Crosshatched skies are neither natural or normal.
Would this be the HAARP that they turned off more than 2 years or ago? Or just another figment of your imagination?
With such a clear grasp of reality it is no wonder that so many people swallow the Biblical "magic stuff" lock, stock and barrel....
Oh boy, storm of the millenium. Time to keep an eye on the other hand of the magi(k)cian.
Get the fuck out wetbacks!!!
Another catasrophic event ... happening exclusively on ZH
We are passing emergency legislation in a special Congressional session. We are preparing the "Paul Ryan Emergency Evacuation Bill" to bring those unfortunate enough to be in the path of the storm to a safe haven further north. We figure just north of the US border should do it.
Curse you, global warming...er, climate change, um...
Damn you George Bush!
-Argenta
definitely,
definitely Bush's fault
definitely
And no mention of Category 5 Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 that was a direct hit on Cancun in the Caribbean with winds of 185mph and 888mb. At the time the most powerful hurricane to hit the Gulf.
How soon they forget.
Elon Musk is headed down there to capture it in a bottle to run his new Tesla Windwagons.
This is the power of HAARP. Educate yourself on this matter along with chemtrails
www.geoengineeringwatch.com
Dane Wiggington is a smart guy & presents factual information, but his goddess is "Mother Nature"; therefore the very people he fights against he will join in the eternal state.
Wiggs in an opportunistic con man fleecing the truly ignorant out of their money.
We can help. America will be glad to replace their dead Mexicans.
"Stunningly catastrophic". Should have named it Barry.
I propose that Obamja write an executive order calling on the EPA to issue regulations banning high speed winds. If Mexico allows this storm to make landfall on the west coast of the Americas it will endanger national security. They will then be shelled and droned and fined 1.5 trillion for ignoring the EPA regulations.
Undoubtedly the CPS is on it's way with a convoy of buses to remove the children from harms way. (think how much money they can make selling young Mexican kidneys to overweight diabetic Americans.) (CPS = Planned De-parenthood)
I can't take much more.
How much longer before Saddam Hussein is removed from the white house?
Ginormous distraction number 13,9.9.z1314-b/12 going according to plan boss. We do not want to let anyone see isreal or the witchy hag hitlery the criminal one flabbergasting and gortting her bilge ratshit criminality and corruption all over the place. Nor do we want to see the world awaken to the horrendous farce and beeswax phony baloney of the american govt supporting, financing, supplying, and suckling the al_CIA-duh terrorist known by any number of sorted and distorted labels and names. Just pick a fruit of the day and it's, oh we gotta use this as an excuse to go after that fruit of the day. False flag woars for profits.
HEY BABYLON!!! THE WORLD'S PEOPLE ARE SICK AND FARKING TIRED OF THE PANTOMIMES, PROPAGANDIST BULLSHIT, AND THE TOTAL STUPIDITY OF WHAT YOU CALL THE WAR ON TERROR. EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU ARE THE TERRORISTS USING THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO DECLARE WAR ON THE WORLD'S PEOPLE FOR NO GOOD REASON OTHER THAN YOUR OWN GOD DAMMED PROFITS. FARK YOU ALL, AND ALL YOU IGNORANTS. WAKE THE FLOCK UP!!! CRIMINALITY AND CORRUPTION IS NOT THE WAY OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE. IT IS THE WAY OF THE WICKED AND EVIL. CHOOSE NOW WHICH TO ALIGN WITH, ELSE YOU ALL END UP FRIED HOCKY BOOGIE IN A PREPLANNED WORLD NUKLEAR WOAR.
Here is what is coming to a ring theatre near you soon. There is a line out the door waiting to do the same to ALL OF YOU BABYLONIANS that call money, god. FARK YOU ALL! Soon the bell will toll for you!! Especially, those darn real stupid satanic isreallis in zionistville, ME. You suckers for the rothschilds are the stupidest evil woarmongering wicked nasty pig eating arseholes on the planet. History will reflect that the two worst countries to ever come into being on the earth were isreal, a rothschoild puppet state, and the new american neo-fascist-commie-con-puppets for satanic ziorothschild criminal us govt.
A view of the future.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBtcq8wmMPg
Is your view of morality ["CRIMINALITY AND CORRUPTION IS NOT THE WAY OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE. IT IS THE WAY OF THE WICKED AND EVIL"] relative to your perception of yourself verses them? If so, then you have a fallacious view because unless there is a fixed moral value to gauge behavior (and there is only one fixed standard given to men), then what you stated is relative only to your standards, which I'm sure change throughout the years.
How would you compare your morality to that of Jesus? That is the fixed standard by which you and them will be judged; will you pass or come close to meeting the standard He set? That is the problem and the reason for the law is to show us we do not and cannot meet the standard by which we all will be judged.
MORE MEDS 4 U. STAT.
the present is Hurricane Perle, not Patricia
Hurricane Albright, Abdullah
Hurricane Bush, Blair, Berdimuhamedow, Batista, Brzezinski
Hurricane Cheney, Ceausescu
Hurricane Dulles, Dershowitz
Hurricane Eberstadt
Hurricane Feith, Forbes, Fukuyama
Hurricane Gaffney
Hurricane Hillary Clinton
Hurricane Idi Amin Dadaj
Hurricane Krugman, Kissinger, Koch, Kristol, Kagame, Karimov, Karzai, Kabila
Hurricane Lieberman, Lieberman, Lagarde
Hurricane Mubarak, Marcos, Mucharraf, Mbasogo, Mobutu, McCain
Hurricane Netanyahu
Hurricane Obama
Hurricane Papadoc, Powell, Pol Pot, Perle, Pinochet
Hurricane Queen Elisabeth II
Hurricane Rumsfeld
Hurricane Suharto, Shah of Iran, Saleh, Sese Seko, Schäuble
Hurricane Thatcher
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Hurricane Wolfowitz
Hurricane Xhafer Deva
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Hurricane Zakheim, Zenawi,
You left out "Gartman".
HA HA ! spit out my smoothie...
Hurricane Gartman. Winds of economic destruction spinning at about 600mph. The hurricane is particualry dangerous as it is always changing direction and trying to suck innocent bystanders into its vortex of (insert your favorite naughty here) ...
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows".
Decriminalize marijuana? Fuck you Mexico! Meet US led weather control.
"Missed it (LA) by that much" ... guess the global satanic controllers need to work a little harder on that aim.
Good opportunity for the lunatics to conflate calamity with their pet bugaboo.
<-Meteorologists
Finally, the fucktard man-made global warming climate change extremists have something to hang their hat on this hurricane season. I remember when the end was supposedly coming in 2004 with the shit load of hurricanes we had in Florida. The fucktards were hysterical. 10 seasons later, not jack shit. I also remember when some more fucktard extermist scienists convinced Nixon we would all be underwater by now thanks to global warming. Born was the EPA.
These so call scientists can barely tell us what the weather will be next week, let alone 100 years from now. The extremists often point out big oil and big coal are smearing them, but let's remember where they get most of their money... the biggest criminal enterprise of all: government.
We may be more inclined to believe your thesis, but first you must learn to spell the word scientist -- and not scienists. It's important -- considering your position...
Border patrol has its work cut out
Pat's gonna blow 12 million mexicans over the fence
I'm sure Obamas already promised to rebuild and ordered money printing commision to work all weekend
I wanna go down there and bang a bunch of hot senoritas before they die
May Karma find you and fast, fucktard.
The fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes ever recorded was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996: an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 253 mph, 408 km/h (220 kn; 113 m/s).
This storm is far below that. However, the global warming loons have a conference upcoming so they cherry pick the data.
You do realize that hurricane strength is measured by atmospheric pressure, not wind speed, right? You also realize, I presume, that there is a difference between sustained winds and gusts? Last, but not least, you surely realize that unless this bitch goes directly over a weather buoy, we'll never really know what the maximum windspeed is, correct? Naw, I don't think you understand any of that. In fact, I'm willing to bet I've seen your picture on PeopleofWalmart.com.
broken windows galore .............
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More Carbon in the atmosphere would have prevented this.
Let's blame the MIC. Here is the evidence.
http://m.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ShuttleRetrospective/page8.php
They burned the oil wells in Kuwait once, and Iraq twice. How much carbon did that release? How much heat was trapped by all the emissions? Let's blame VW too!
Live Video feed from Puerto Vallarta beach
This could completely wipe out Fresnillo's 65 million oz of silver production...
That live feed is from Ixtapa in Guerrero.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Ixtapa,+Gro.,+Mexico/Manzanillo,+Col.,+M...!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x8434771596b16111:0x67a9ce1c953f51f!2m2!1d-101.5982919!2d17.6656399!1m5!1m1!1s0x8424d43417bb3e19:0xddb3e9aae7750d4b!2m2!1d-104.3384616!2d19.1138094!3e0
I have no doubt that this is a serious storm, but the Weathergasms and Newsgasms make me just a little skeptical...
Hurricane or not, if hot chicks are required for any Brazillian news, the same is true for Mexican news.
Brazilians and Mexicans don't even speak the same langauge, even though it sounds the same to guys like you.
I like T&A -- Fuck the difference between Portuguese and Spanish.
If something like that hit San Diego or Cthulhu forbid Los Angeles the damage would be nearly total.
And apparently this is far from impossible, hurricanes have hit San Diego, and "Pineapple Express" drenching rains have hit further north and eventually will happen again.
In fact, we demand that 25% of this current storm be redirected north immediately. Thanks.
25% of the population is already in the U.S. How many can be left there?
Well they breed a lot down there and from what I hear they lay eggs before they head north. So, off hand it would depend on how many more people are being driven off their land by the U.N. death squads in conjunction with how many eggs hatch.
Worst since Lehman!
If only we listened to algore none of this would have happened...carbon credits would have saved us from any natural catastrophe even earthquakes!
Notice the HAARP weather manipulators steered the hurricaine south so CA would not get any rain.
They also intensified it up to a Cat 5 to bolster their cliimate change stampede.
You have to be Poe'ing us...
That is the only rational explanation because nobody is this stupid unless they are deliberately trying...
"Strongest storm ever". Really? EVER??? How do you know?
Cyclonic storms have been occurring on the Earth for trillions of years. Have you checked this one against all of those? No? Of course not, since no records exist of how intense they were.
So cut out the hype headlines. They make you sound like a Climate Nazi.
"Cyclonic storms have been occurring on the Earth for trillions of years"
Probably not since Earth only came into existence about 4.5 billion years ago :-)
But it's true that v/severe weather patterns have occurred over that time, far worse than we experience today.
How do doubters think all that oil was created in the Middle East sandpit?
I remember when they said that Sandy was a once in a thousand years storm. So just in the last million years we've had 1000 of them.
This is why they say 'on record'. I'm sure this could be explained to you if need be.
Since you asked, here is the quote from Dr. Masters:
Trillions?? You really have no idea what is going on, do you?
Well, a little humor with excess melanin:
1- Mexican Pacific sleeps and wakes up in the Atlantic.
2 Mexican will come flying over the border (either best thing! No need to walk over the desert!).
3- Nature is to create a larger channel that the Panama!
4 Fasten your "sombreros"! (let's fly!)
5 Take a deep breath, deep and say, "'Now fucked!".
hehe.
This is only a small outline of what is to come.
: - /
Trivia note, the Tai in Taiwan (??) is the same chinese character as the Tai in Taifeng/Typhoon (??) which means the wind from Taiwan, where most typhoons originate.
In 1967 I saw a city disappear, Caraguatatuba, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A concrete bridge has been moved 300 meters the slope to the beach.
Already I gathered many pieces of people on the road.
In 1986 the Ribeira Valley floods Registry-Itajaí.
You can not imagine what we already saw in these 53 years of life ...
Unfortunately, shit grabs and the state is only present in people like me.
Make no mistake.
:-)
There's been a lot of torrential rainstorms in Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and even your own state Paraná in recent weeks.
Are they causing severe damage?
After all the hype this had better be a good one.
This is a horrible situation ... God watch over those poor folks.
Um, god created the hurricane.
Nothing happened. Good job scare mongering and using this to push your pet agendas.
Idiots.
"It is now reported that billions are dead ... in Chicago alone." - Southpark "Beaverton" episode
I think Dick Cheney ordered the "rods of god" to be used on the Mexican cartels who are holding Reagan's brain hostage inside a jar ... that they keep connected to a COMMODORE-64 circa 1983 ... it has a tape deck for a hard drive ... yeah ...
Any who ...
This is Dick Cheney's fault, this hurricane kerfuffle.
came ashore as less than predicted.
small windfield area.
no deaths and limited damage reported.
dissapated over land quickly, downgraded to trop storm almost immediately, then trop depression.
now just heavy rains over texas (folks who were bitching not too long ago about not enough rain).
yet another alarmist headline that will be conveniently forgotten tomorrow.
Hey ding-a-ling, the story is that a mundane tropical storm bombed out to a one of the most intense Cat 5 storms (by barometric pressure) ever recorded in the western hemisphere in a mere 36 hrs or so...
Just imagine if Miami had been in its sights...
Summary of Climate Denial:
And here is a concrete example of the above: