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Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico
CNN reports that Hurricane Patricia has made landfall in Mexico; Patricia is notable for having the third-lowest barometer reading ever recorded, and as "the strongest hurricane ever observed in the eastern Pacific or Atlantic oceans." Slate points out that at one point, "satellite estimates of Patricia’s intensity broke the Dvorak scale, peaking at 8.3 on the 8.0 scale. ... In fact, Patricia is now very close to the theoretical maximum strength for a tropical cyclone on planet Earth." The Weather Channel is tracking the storm's path, and predicts "catastrophic damage ... along a narrow path as the eye slices into the interior of southwest Mexico Friday night." Here's a map from the National Weather Service showing Patricia's track as well as projected path.
No no... it says right here under sub-section J that if you want humanitarian this time the price of a wall must be included.
If she crosses the border into Texas, Trump will want a BIGGER wall!!!!
Does anyone understand the Dvorak scale well enough to comment on how this hurricane supposedly broke it and yet it can be accurately put on the scale as an 8.3?
As often happens with Pacific storms since ocean conditions for maintaining strength are rarely favorable near coastal areas in that part of the world. Winds were down over 50mph by the time it made landfall.
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the only homes of the poor.
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Life that could see has been in that area for millions of years.
This is what I predicted when I did my Ph.D in Climatology: a chaotic system will produce much larger storms than ever before. 30 years later it turns out I was right!
..of the potential for flooding in Mexico City. Also, what kind of damage does a 50mph wind do to a shanty-town?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Climate change is just something the SJW scientists made up to take away our masculinity and now Star Wars is all about a black person. Not a coincidence.
This is a confirmed fact.
You are welcome on my lawn.
That's not quite so exclusive as it sounds. There are a lot of storms with the same barometer reading
870mm - Typhoon Tip (1979)
875mm - Typhoon June (1975)
875mm - Typhoon Nora (1973)
877mm - Typhoon Ida (1958)
880mm - Typhoon Kit (1966)
880mm - Typhoon Rita (1978)
880mm - Typhoon Vanessa (1984)
880mm - Hurricane Patricia (2015)
The 1970s were a bad decade for storms in the West Pacific.
The hurricane force winds only extend about 25 miles which is way below the average of 100 miles. Katrina was around 125 miles. So while the peak winds here are fast it's a very small storm. Almost midway between a hurricane and tornado.
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
Oh, here we go again. Gloom and doom, etc. etc.
What I always want to know is even with unlimited money, just what do you think you could do about "global warming?" Our whole society runs on energy, and without it our crops don't get grown and they don't get to market. The fuels to make electricity require energy to move them from the oil or coal fields to the generators where they are turned into electricity. And cars and trucks run on oil, there are millions and millions of cars, and nobody has invented the "magic battery" to allow us to run them without emitting.
And if you try to spend unlimited money, you end up throwing people out of work. They go into poverty. What is more dangerous to your health than smoking? Living in poverty is more dangerous than smoking as it can take up to 10 years off your life. Smoking is only "good" for a 7 year reduction in lifespan. Plus, those kids that are living in poverty and experiencing undernourishment will have their brains fail to develop fully, and this damage cannot be reversed later.
And since the Chinese and the Indians don't give a flying F about the global warming scarecrow, they are going to continue to dig coal like it is going out of style. That means that the rest of the world that considers themselves "sane" will have to go to zero emissions. We can't do it. We don't have that tech yet. We may never get that tech. The only way we could achieve zero emissions is kill a really significant portion of the population and go back to animal-powered subsistence farming like the 1800's, but of course the lifespans would be like the 1800's. Izzat what we want to do? And, as many scientists claim, the AGW theory may yet be a hoax, and if so, we could kill millions for nothing.
People can whine about global warming all day, but unless they have a SOLUTION, I don't want to hear it. "Doing a little bit" that is insanely costly and doesn't amount to 0.05 degrees of reduction is just torturing the citizens for no good reason. I want a full-up, "completely stop the warming" solution or I say we don't spend a damned dime toward it. Half measures just harm all.
Just those metorologists trying to scare up more research funding.
Coincidence? I think not.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
President Obama with council from his Greatest Born Science Advisor Dr. Holdren and NOAA declare Hurricane Patricia a Planet Killer Storm.
The Alarm is sounded.
All High Government Officials are required to evacuate Washington DC to a secret bunker in Virginia at once.
Pres. Obama has ordered SAC to dispatch 52 B2s armed with thermonuclear warhead bombs to destroy the Hurricane Patricia at once.
Although early projections by SAC call for the killing of 300 million Mexican citizens SAC calculate the deaths, justified.
Hurricane Patricia will gouge a trench 50 km deep within the North American Plate, as Holdern projects. The in-filling waters of the Atlantic and Pacific will cause massive steam explosions and breakage of the plate causing deadly primal magma to rise and destroy humanity.
White House says, "This is Humanity Extinction Event in 24 hours."
The National Security Advisor advised Obama to masturbate in order to preserve his sperm for future generations of homo sapiens sapiens and the National Democratic Party of the USA.
God Save Us the National Democratic Party.
Fuck you otherwise.
Ha ha
Patricia is now very close to the theoretical maximum strength for a tropical cyclone on planet Earth [citation needed]
I guess in this case, weather == climate right? And the lack of hurricanes the last few years was just weather != climate. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/7...
Was it a SPECIFIC republican that created this storm, or did all Republicans have a hand in it?
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
I was raised in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and I remember Hurricane Opal(1995) like it was yesterday. The highest wind speeds were captured just blocks from my home on Hurlburt Air Force base at 145 mph. I've seen, firsthand, the absolute destruction these wind speeds can cause. Homes built near the water that were supposed to be hurricane proof were absolutely leveled. Our 4 lane highway running through Okaloosa Island was torn away in massive chunks. The day after the storm boats of all sizes were found in peoples homes, parking lots, and many other random places around the city. I hope these people have strict building codes and have taken the best possible precautions available to them, things are going to be ugly.
Chicken Noodle News hyperbole much?
hurricane ever observed in the eastern Pacific or Atlantic oceans.
No shit Sherlock, otherwise it would by called a typhoon, or a cyclone. And there have been many comparable/bigger ones of those.
How does Timothy manage to filter in only the garbage submissions?
Please help us all out by stop breathing. Blaming the Republicans for every thing is just beyond ignorant. Do you honestly believe that democrats are innocence just because they say something different?
As Trump has factually indicated, G & G are responsible for 9/11.
God is doing his damnest to take out that family in Texas, even if it means thousands of Mexico innocents perish in the process.
Thanks Obama!
At least the Democrats are trying to change the system and get international agreements to have others work together to solve this problem. The GOP deniers are just in it to get money for their campaigns or because they get money from the dirty energy companies themselves.
Planet killer hurricane Patricia continues her murderous destruction across Mexico. USGS scientists report observing volcanic eruption on the seafloor in the Pacific southwest of Mexico, with earthquakes up to 11 occurring into central Mexico. This is vital information indicating the destruction of the North American Plate and redirection of mantle flow. Medical services in Mexico report at least 2 billion dead and 6 billion casualties. The UN has order the immediate evacuation of remaining living human beings in North and Central America. UN advises US states and Mexico departments that NATO air forces have been mobilized to kill all remaining human beings to spare them death by Patricia. UN General Secretary Bon Ki Moon joyously announces that the IPCC mandate of carbon elimination has been met to save the remaining planet Earth while there is still a few days before total destruction. -- Reuters
Where will Mexico find any low wage workers to clean up?
Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, is reporting that this storm is a hoax. So much of a hoax, in fact, that NOAA personnel have been told they will be charged with a crime if they tell the truth.
His site is here: http://www.jimstone.is/circumv...
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Patricia is now very close to the theoretical maximum strength for a tropical cyclone on planet Earth
Is that based on previous observations of Earth's weather before climate change started building?
Some of the predictions I've seen for "worst case" storms imply they could be much larger.
Side note: I misspelled "imply" as "implie" the spell checker gave me a possible correction of "pimplike" for "implie".
pimplike....
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Well the predictions of catastrophe are seriously all wrong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-24/patricia-spares-mexico-worst-hurricane-fades-to-tropical-storm
So NOAA's, White House's and IPCC's alarms were nothing more than pissing in the rain.
Ha ha
Yes this once in a millennium global super storm was caused by Rush Limbaugh's insistence on heating his multimillion dollar cottage with open hearth coal furnaces. I personally saw Donald Trump blowing the storm over to the coast of Mexico toward all the brown people. That is just what he does.
I can't wait for NPR to do their expose on how global super storms are causing disproportionate havoc on Latino's and African Americans, and if your house did not get wiped out, you are being unsympathetic to the disadvantaged and need to die.
Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific
was a dud.
Bush's fault.
that's a common core math estimate