Hurricane Patricia is now breaking records! As stated earlier on the blog, Hurricane Patricia grew from a Tropical Storm to a Category 5 Hurricane in 30 hours! Overnight, Patricia has strengthen even more, with max sustained winds up to an unprecedented 200mph! Along with extreme winds, the pressure of this system has dropped to an extreme 880mb. Hurricane Patricia is now the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and has recorded the lowest pressure ever for a hurricane! This is a power house storm! The old record low pressure was 882 milibars, that was set by Wilma almost exactly 10 years ago.
At 4a.m. the eye of the storm was about 160 miles south-south west of Manzanillo, Mexico and is moving north-northwest at 12mph. Hurricane Patricia is forecast to make landfall near Puerto Vallarta as an intense and catastrophic Category 5 hurricane that is capable of causing widespread destruction. Now residents have to rush to prepare for what will most likely be the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall on Mexico's Pacific Coast.
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