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Overnight Jam: !!! (Chk, Chk, Chk) - "Bam City"

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lawhawk10/23/2015 6:03:46 am PDT

re: #23 teleskiguy

This morning, the hurricane hunters found a low pressure reading of 880mbs.

That’s huge, as is the fact that they’re predicting it to come ashore not only as a Cat 5, but as a Cat 5 with 200 mph winds. That’d be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the Western Hemisphere as long as folks have been keeping records. The storm went from tropical depression to Category 5 in 24 hours.

It would make Patricia the strongest storm ever to hit North America. Did I say ever. Yeah, I did. By any measure, it’s stronger than Andrew, Camille, Katrina, Rita, Sandy, Floyd, and any other notable storms that come to mind. Higher winds than any of the other storms either. Only a handful of storms, usually in the Western Pacific have had the combination of low pressure and high winds that Patricia does. That tells you how rare this storm is.

And it has the potential to be devastating as its path would take it across Mexico, dumping tremendous amounts of rain causing widespread flooding, landslides, and power outages. Millions of people are in the threatened area, and there’s a potential for significant loss of life as a result of the storm even with reasonable precautions.