Patricia: Strongest Hurricane Ever

[rootabaga]

I am really concerned about the people in the pathway of this storm. I so hope and pray that they have taken all precautions and that the loss of life is minimal.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather...ongest-storm-ever-measured-hit-mexico-n449731

 

[Unforgiven]

Good call. That storm looks deadly.

 

[jefboyardee]

Mega-storm Patricia drenches Mexico as it weakens

There were reports of some flooding and landslides, but no word of fatalities or major damage as the storm pushed across inland mountains while bypassing the metropolis of Guadalajara overnight.​

 

[jefboyardee]

Texas gonna get wet too...

 

[Unforgiven]

Yeah, lucky break for the large scale. Still a disaster for those that got hit.

 

[jefboyardee]

Megastorm Patricia inflicts little damage on Mexican coast

The hurricane's most powerful punch hit a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific Coast before the system crashed into mountains that sapped its potentially catastrophic force. Hours later, the storm had dissipated into fast-moving bands of rain that posed their greatest threat to already sodden Texas.​

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Up to 18 inches of rain had fallen in Corsicana in the last 24 hours, rivaling the amounts that wreaked havoc in South Carolina weeks earlier. The rain will spread into South Texas on Sunday as a stalled cold front causing the downpours is reinforced by remnants of Hurricane Patricia.​

 

[jefboyardee]

Megastorm Patricia inflicts little damage on Mexican coast

Only a day after menacing Mexico as one of history's strongest storms, Hurricane Patricia left surprisingly little damage in its wake Saturday and quickly dissipated into an ordinary low-pressure system that posed little threat beyond heavy rain.​

That's what happens when you broadcast the news before it happens.

 

[Unforgiven]

I'm no meteorologist, but I think the biggest factor may have been the lack of physical size of the storm. It was fairly small as with hurricane force winds only extending lie 35 miles out from the eye IIRC. Contrast that with Superstorm Sandy (newscasters love alliterations, don't they ) which made landfall as "only" a tropical storm, but was so geographically huuuge that it maintained strength and coordination for a much longer duration.

 

[AZgl1500]

Yes, it did end up totally different than Sandy when that one wiped out a good portion of the Northeastern USA.