Urgent! Hurricane Patricia at category 5 heading for Mexico has landed! Potentially catastrophic storm! Biggest Hurricane recorded!

yeah, i know, right?
people will die in this storm, so much damage...holy hell.

According to wind probability charts at NOAA Barra Navidad has a slightly greater percentage than P. Vallarta.



[link to www.nhc.noaa.gov]


The weather channel today showed how a cat 5 does 500 times the damage of a cat 1. There is not such a thing as a cat 6, just cat 5 for any winds over 157 mph. Winds expected to be 205 at landfall which is equivalent to a tornado.

7 am 14A intermediate advisory
[link to www.nhc.noaa.gov]

"Laura Diane Rebholz, who co-owns a modeling agency in Scottsdale, Arizona, told NBC News early Friday that she felt it was "safer to ride the storm out" at the Puerto Vallarta hotel where she's vacationing." (from nbcnews.com link)

Wonder if we'll be hearing from Ms. Rebholz any more ... does she realize her hotel was not designed for 200mph winds?

Anyway I guess "they" need more evidence to get their stuff pushed thru at next month's Paris climate summit.

Good luck Mexico. Do we have any GLPers in the path of this storm?
This is going to be a rough afternoon. That is a seriously bad storm.

Wonder if the weather channel is going to place Jim Cantore in the path of the eye of this one?

People will never learn

This is bad

Yes. Low pressure = storms. High pressure = clear sunny days. The lower that millibar number the more intense the storm will be.

Thank you for the explanation.

MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...880 MB...25.99 INCHES

Strongest storm ever in Western Hemisphere!

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for...
* San Blas to Punta San Telmo

it seem now its diverted a bit low from Puerto Vallarta?
I hope is truth!

EarthUncutT ‏@EarthUncutT Hace 3 minutos
#Patricia, packing 220 mph winds, is expected to make landfall BETWEEN Puerto Vallarta & Manzanillo MX later today.

i cant find name from town yet where it seem will hit
hope not much people living there.

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The lower the pressure the greater the storm strength, the center eye of the Hurricane with the spin causing the lower pressure the water actually rises or is lifted in the center, could be a few feet or many. Once the Hurricane hits land that water moved along with the hurricane can then be dumped inland and cause wide scale flooding along with all other aspects of the cyclone.

I wonder how many drug cartel members are going to escape if the prisons get blown apart.

Dangerous on another level.

posting from the other thread

Terrifying :( :( :(

A tornado comes and goes in a short period. Hurricanes rip at one place for hours - combined with storm surge and rain. This is massively terrible and nobody can do anything to stop it. Maybe prayer will do something so I hope everyone does.

I think that would be the best plan even though the resorts are in the bulls eye of the storm they are most likely built the strongest compared to the rest of Mexico, unless there is a designated government hurricane shelter. Due to the slow speed of this hurricane it will take a long time to pass over the resort area. I would think up a few floors in a concrete building as the flooding might be high in the coastal areas, that being said with a Cat 5+ hurricane no structure may last this long event duration. Winds will start in one direction and once the eye passes over then will flow in the opposite direction, this is what usually takes down structures especially during a 10+ hour event, most I fear are now doomed in that landfall area!!!

Forty foot waves incoming?

I don't believe it or I don't want to.

What is this thing?

NOAA and lack of info

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Another link on description box.

Be strong Mexico! Hoping for you only material damage and that precious lives be protected.

Wow!

And we are already getting tons of rain here in north Texas, 3 to 7 inches by Sunday. This storm will bring even more.

And where did this storm come from? Nothing, then all the sudden...

This storm did the unimaginable and went from a tropical storm to a Cat 5 in just over 24hrs time, unthinkable but most likely related to very warm waters and a very strong El Nino we are experiencing now.

Anyone tabbed up the live beachcams in Puerto? Be interesting to see these waves when they hit, otherwise all we have for solid evidence is the twitter feeds.

Anyone got some good ones of the hotels?

Fueled by near-record warm ocean water and favorable atmospheric conditions,
Hurricane Patricia has become the strongest hurricane ever measured

[link to earth.nullschool.net]

it's so defined, wrapped, incredible.

Yes, makes winds more powerfull and the amount of water it can contain.

Anyone?

Hurricane Patricia IS strongest storm EVER measured on the planet - to trigger 39ft waves.

[link to www.express.co.uk]

web cam

[link to www.webcamsdemexico.com]

Look at the size of the red behind the weather forecaster in the video

[link to www.nbcbayarea.com]

My mother lives near Chapala which is about 30 miles South of Guadalajara. It's a little over 5,000 feet in elevation. That will take a lot of the sting out of the hurricane. They're expecting maybe 40 mph sustained winds and 3 - 5" inches of rain. Mudslides might be their biggest problem.

FU

Checked here a short while ago and thought 'oh look another hurricane doom thread' and paid no mind. Turn on the news and the weather expert says she has seen nothing like it before.

Crikey.