OT: Patricia - Monster Hurricane about to hit Mexican West Coast...

[RU848789]

Just in case you haven't heard about this one. Sustained winds at 200 mph and will be making landfall on the SW Mexican coast in ~6 hours or so. This is going to be a devastating hit to that area. Should largely dissipate while heading towards SW Texas, but could be huge rains in the Gulf States in the next few days.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDEP5+shtml/231449.shtml?

Here's what Jeff Masters, from Wunderground had to say - scary stuff:

"Stunning, historic, mind-boggling, and catastrophic: that sums up Hurricane Patricia, which intensified to an incredible-strength Category 5 storm with 200 mph winds overnight. 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."

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3165

 

[Caliknight]

Hope we at least get some solid south swell out of it. Late in the season, but we haven't seen that monster swell yet. This is likely it.

 

[saran]

Good thing the Mexicans are all up here. Just cartel guys left down there...I think.

 

[toby83]

lol ^

 

[Tango Two]

Just in case you haven't heard about this one. Sustained winds at 200 mph and will be making landfall on the SW Mexican coast in ~6 hours or so. This is going to be a devastating hit to that area. Should largely dissipate while heading towards SW Texas, but could be huge rains in the Gulf States in the next few days.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDEP5+shtml/231449.shtml?

Here's what Jeff Masters, from Wunderground had to say - scary stuff:

"Stunning, historic, mind-boggling, and catastrophic: that sums up Hurricane Patricia, which intensified to an incredible-strength Category 5 storm with 200 mph winds overnight. 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."

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3165

http://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/threads/ot-hurricane-patricia.42806/

 

[RU848789]

Fortunately, for the locals, the storm weakened considerably before landfall, which just occurred, with estimated winds of 165 mph - still a devastating Cat 5.

 

[Ru2bnj]

The other very fortunate thing is that storms of this intensity are often very compact and and "small" in size. Hurricane force winds only out about 35 miles from the center. Similar to Hurricane Camille ...which devastated the central Miss coast in 1969 and the "Labor Day Hurricane" of 1938 which hit the Florida Keys. For the US, I still think that Hurricane Katrina which hit the Miss coast hard (flooding in NOLA was more due to system failure) but was a massive storm and category 5 over the Gulf ...1.5 days before landfall. Hit as a major and strong Cat 3 Hurricane, with tremendous storm surge.