Patricia Becomes Strongest Pacific Hurricane Ever Recorded

Aug. 23, 2015 Friday

Tues., a weather system off the west coast of Mexico became tropical storm Patricia.
It became a hurricane Thursday morning.
Now today, Friday, it is at the top end of category five. It is the largest hurricane ever recorded.
And it is just a few hours from coming ashore in Mexico.
Its strength is increased by the warm waters from the current strong El Niño, which is itself strengthened by global warming.
It is what climate scientists have been warming us about for decades.
People like the Koch brothers; excutives at Exxon/Mobile, including CEO Rex Wayne Tillerson; and Don Blankenship, ex-CEO of Massey coal company, have known about human-caused global warming, and have paid people to deny it, for the sake of their own pocketbooks & power.
They are mass murderers. They in the same moral class as hired murderers.

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

Catastrophic Landfall Expected Soon in Mexico; Patricia Becomes Strongest Pacific Hurricane Ever Recorded

Oct. 23, 2015

A 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).

The hurricane is forecast to make landfall in the Mexican state of Jalisco Friday evening as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane capable of causing widespread destruction. Residents and authorities in Mexico are rushing to prepare for what will likely be the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall on that country's Pacific coastline.

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While a number of typhoons in the western North Pacific have been stronger, Patricia is by far the strongest hurricane in any basin where the term "hurricane" applies to tropical cyclones – namely, the central and eastern North Pacific basins and the North Atlantic basin, which includes the North Atlantic Ocean itself plus the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/hurricane-patricia-typhoon-history-el-nino/

The science of how Hurricane Patricia became so colossal

BY Nsikan Akpan October 23, 2015 at 6:07 PM EDT

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Cyclones form when ocean temperatures reach 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which heats the air just above the water. That air rises into the cooler portions of the atmosphere, moving massive amounts of air and creating strong winds. The rising humid air also spawns the giant clouds of a cyclone.

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according to Slate’s Eric Holthaus, “Patricia is now very close to the theoretical maximum strength for a tropical cyclone on planet Earth.” El Niño is also triggering droughts in eastern Africa.

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So as far as we know, Patricia has set a pressure record, topping Hurricane Wilma from 10 years ago. But why does it matter?

“Lower pressure gives a guesstimate of what the wind is going to be. The pressure doesn’t do any damage,” Kottlowski said. “It just gives a measure of how intense the storm is. The lower the pressure, potentially the stronger the winds.

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Hurricane is used for storms in the western Atlantic, Caribbean and eastern Pacific.

In the Northwest Pacific, people use the word “ typhoon”, though when the storms reach Category 4 or above 150 miles per hour, they’re called “super typhoons.”

Around Australia, India and throughout the Indian Ocean, these storms are called cyclones. Cyclon is also used for the rare occasions when a tropical storms hits the Mediterranean Sea, which has only happened five times since 1947.

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