Pacific - Patricia becomes one of strongest hurricanes on record! Landfall W Mexico soon! (day, cities)
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I know that's not the worst picture of the damage, but Andrew...when we drove back into Broward using hwy 27... (and Andrew hit Dade), we saw the 50, 60 ft. tall pines...bent in rows backwards. You could tell just by looking at it it was wind damage up in Broward, but very powerful.
When we made it to Miami, it looked like a nuke had been set off.
I hope the best for them.
Andrew struck before dawn. Because of this, you couldn't really see the wind in broad daylight like you can with Patricia. Before Patrica, the best footage we had of high wind on camera was Charley.
Early warning is part of it, but according to reports, that storm was far worse.
Yup... and many others were much worse. I guess AGW's cant use Patricia in that sense. Now imagine Patricia hitting a populated area... imagine the headlines and the blame on you know what we would see everywhere.
To be honest, I would of rather lived through those big storms of the past then now, even without warning, just so I don't have to hear the Bullsit out there.
It must of been so nice to "discuss" weather events and extremes in the past. Now its about 1 thing.
Patricia is no more. Fallen apart south of Texas / Mexico border well SW of McAllen, TX. Heavy scattered rains will continue into much of southeastern Texas and into Lousinana.
Patricia is no more. Fallen apart south of Texas / Mexico border well SW of McAllen, TX. Heavy scattered rains will continue into much of southeastern Texas and into Lousinana.
I'm in northeast Texas and we've already gotten over ten inches of rain with another 4 inches or so in the forecast.
I got the distinct impression that they were exaggerating this storm and hyping it to the point where they were fabricating the data. Now we see that the damage and effects of the " worst storm in recorded history" was far less severe than they predicted. So now we're left wondering exactly WHY they felt they had to lie about it and WHY they now feel that its okay to deceive people with fictitious news reporting and climatological events. This has the stench of the global warming agenda all over it.
So what was it, a class 3 or a even just a class 2 hurricane?
I got the distinct impression that they were exaggerating this storm and hyping it to the point where they were fabricating the data. Now we see that the damage and effects of the " worst storm in recorded history" was far less severe than they predicted. So now we're left wondering exactly WHY they felt they had to lie about it and WHY they now feel that its okay to deceive people with fictitious news reporting and climatological events. This has the stench of the global warming agenda all over it.
So what was it, a class 3 or a even just a class 2 hurricane?
Several Meteorologist are upset how the media handled this event. Giant headlines mainly serving as 'click-bate', inaccurate reporting of the AFFECT people would see was WAAYYY out of proportion (in that the devastation will actually happen in a small few miles radius of the center and not 100 miles of coast like some media outlets portrayed), interviews with tourist out of harms way saying it wasn't bad, etc. etc.
The only upside to such 'attention' is people take note and that hopefully saves some lives BUT this type of reporting leads to deaths in future storm events because people won't take it as seriously.
The storm was one for the record books. Reconnaissance data proves this. Prior to landfall the storm is believed to have been entering an 'eye wall replacement cycle' where it rebuilds its eye/center (common for larger storms) which it loses some strength prior to building back up again over a several hour period. Also was starting to interact with a trough. I do not believe we were allowed to collect data over Mexican air space during the storm, only fly over it to get to the storm when it was in international waters.
These more powerful storms are VERY compact with hurricane force winds (74mph sustained or greater) but in this case ONLY going out some 30ish miles from the center. If you were over 35 miles from the center....you DIDN'T see hurricane force winds in this event = NO BIG DAMAGE!
But that small area of 2-5+/- miles...devastation expected.
The Mexican military is clearing hwy 200 along the coast to get to the landfall location from the North and the South. We do not have any photos or videos yet from the actual landfall location that I'm aware of.
We are VERY lucky that it hit in a more remote location = a LOT less damage will be seen / available to film as far as structures go. Had this storm jogged a little to the north or a little to the south it would have hit areas with 200,000+ people around Puerto Vallarta and 100,000+ around Manzanillo, Mexico. VERY different story had that occurred.
A storm chaser was in the landfall location. Awaiting their pressure readings from 3 pressure gauges that will help in a BIG way in determining fairly accurately what strength this storm actually was at landfall. Too soon to tell right now. We DO know that the storm was weaker at landfall...preliminary estimates are 165mph sustained but that's ONLY right around where the eye came ashore and then mountainous terrain quickly tears apart the hurricane.
I'm in northeast Texas and we've already gotten over ten inches of rain with another 4 inches or so in the forecast.
Yep, heavy rains before the remnants of Patricia add more rains to the area. Flooding is the number one killer in hurricanes (surge & inland flooding combined). They can dump a lot of rain which is good for drought striken areas but all at once comes at a price.
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