{"id":13758,"date":"2015-10-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13758"},"modified":"2015-10-23T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T23:42:00","slug":"meet-stunningly-catastrophic-patricia-the-worlds-strongest-storm-ever-is-about-to-hit-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13758","title":{"rendered":"Meet “Stunningly Catastrophic” Patricia, The World’s Strongest Storm Ever Is About To Hit Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet “Stunningly Catastrophic” Patricia, The World’s Strongest Storm Ever Is About To Hit Mexico<\/a><\/h3>\n

“Stunning, historic, mind-boggling, and catastrophic”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is how\u00a0Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters<\/a>\u00a0sums 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\u2019s strength was\u00a0comparable to that of Typhoon Haiyan, which caused devastation in the Philippines in 2013<\/strong>, and so Mexico has declared a state of emergency for Puerto Vallarta (with\u00a0officials warning that storm surges could cause waves of up to 39 feet<\/em><\/strong>) as she is forecast to hit the coast between 6 and 10pm ET.<\/p>\n

As Weather Undergound reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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At 2:46 am EDT October 23, 2015 an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft measured a central pressure of 880 mb in Patricia,\u00a0making it the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere.<\/strong>\u00a0The aircraft measured surface winds of 200 mph, which are the\u00a0highest reliably-measured surface winds on record for a tropical cyclone, anywhere on the Earth.<\/strong>The previous strongest Eastern Pacific hurricane was Hurricane Linda of 1997, with a pressure of 902 mb (estimated from satellite imagery.)<\/div>\n

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Patricia the fastest-intensifying Western Hemisphere hurricane on record<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Patricia’s intensification rate was very close to the WMO-recognized world record for fasting-intensifying tropical cyclone<\/strong><\/u>: 100 millibars in just under 24 hours by Super Typhoon Forrest in the Northwest Pacific in 1983.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Patricia’s 200 mph sustained winds make it the 3rd strongest tropical cyclone in world history (by 1-minute averaged wind speed.)<\/p>\n

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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”\u00a0is how\u00a0Weather Underground’s Jeff Masters\u00a0sums 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2175,10173,517,10172,10176,10174,10175,4318],"class_list":["post-13758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-floods","tag-hurricane-patricia","tag-mexico","tag-patricia","tag-storm-surge","tag-weather-system","tag-winds","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13759,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions\/13759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}