Strongest Hurricane Ever?

[AH173]

Could it be?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurricane-patricia-strongest-storm-ever-measured-hit-mexico-n449731?cid=sm_tw&hootPostID=f9f25d6ab49a93ffd7115d18ff7f76f9

[Jodievt]

Wow.

[New World Explorer]

Hope our brothers and sisters will be ok ..

[AH173]

Looks like an evacuation event. Possibly 40ft water surges.

[Áine]

I've just heard this. ..weather has become a whole lot more violent worldwide

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[Trina]

This is scary! Mexico and Texas should seek refuge from this!!! The largest ever recorded...it just keeps getting worse everywhere.

[Friends just call me Ross]

This is what Patricia looked like yesterday, already.

As seen from NASA's deep space weather satellite:

 

[Dustparticle]

Looks like an evacuation event. Possibly 40ft water surges.

They got get out of there.

[Mykyl]

It of the same power as the one that hit the Philippines in 2013. It's the most powerful they have seen in that area. Not the most powerful ever. That however does not lessen the damage it can do. I hope all listen to whatever direction they ar given and follow it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-34614864

Edited October 23, 2015 by Mykyl

[zoebarry]

Our weatherman reported this morning that this storm went from a category one to category five, overnight! 

 

He also said that if a category six existed, it would surely be upgraded to that!!

 

Wow!  Pray for all the brothers and sisters in Baja California!

Edited October 23, 2015 by zoebarry

[Jewelz]

Hoping everyone in the path are safe! ️

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[Trina]

Yes they just announced on the news here that this is the biggest ever on record.

[Mykyl]

Yes they just announced on the news here that this is the biggest ever on record.

Where are you? Here on the news they just said it was the biggest on record in the Western Hemisphere. Weird how the same news is reported differently.

[Trina]

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast

[AH173]

I just heard it was the biggest in Western Hemisphere also. It's still big and bad.

[Mykyl]

http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast

Ah I get it. The headline says that but the actual body says what's reported here. It's the biggest in the Western Hemisphere.

potentially catastrophic landfall is expected Friday evening as a very powerful and dangerous Hurricane Patricia moves towards Mexico's Pacific coast. Hurricane Patricia became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere on Friday morning as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph).

[Trina]

It's officially stating it is larger than Haiyan that hit the Phillipines, the wind speed is 200 mph and the last record for super typhoon Haiyan was 195.

http://thevane.gawker.com/at-200-mph-hurricane-patricia-is-now-the-strongest-tro-1738224692

[Trina]

Sorry I should have stated the article gives records. But whatever it is on the historic scale it's not going to be good!

[Greg Dent]

That is just insane. Prayer will help them through it. But keep in mind that it is unforeseen occurrence if something does happen. They will be in our prayers tonight and tomorrow.

[Greg Dent]

They are expecting for us to get very severe thunderstorms up here in Canada maybe but deffinatly in the lower states. Here is our local news reports about this hurricane.

 

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/hurricane-patricia-mexico/58780/

 

From Canadian Weather Network.

 

They are saying it is the strongest ever recorded.

[shali]

There are 20 million people in the path of this historic (and some news agencies are calling it "apocalyptic") hurricane.  That is scary!! I dread to hear of the news reports after it hits land.  I saw the flooding that Texas is already having without the added rain from this hurricane and it's gonna be a HUGE mess not to mention the loss of lives.

[Friends just call me Ross]

The view from the International Space Station, this afternoon:

 

 

 

[shali]

It's hard to believe any storm could get that massive!

Edited October 23, 2015 by shali

[hatcheckgirl]

It's the density of the population in its path that is the major issue.  North Australia has had worsening cyclones at category 5 which have devastated the landscape and caused the infamous banana shortage, but nothing like the loss we saw in the Philippines for example when thousands lost their lives and were homeless.  Those poor people in its path in Mexico.  We can really see the weather patterns becoming more extreme.

[Tortuga]

http://www.carfax.com/guides/buying-used/things-to-avoid/flood-damage

 

Just a reminder; some of the cars damaged by flood water may end up in a used car lot near you...