eastern pacific Major Hurricane Patricia

[Somerset Squall]

My word. This is actually considerably stronger! Almost seems out of nowhere. I've been so busy with things lately that I haven't had time to check weather etc!

Cyclogenesis must've bombed to another level on this beast.

Patricia has broken records for how quickly it strengthened. Pressure fell by 100mb in 24hrs.

[weatherobsuk]

Recon flight hasn't had much luck either, plane was dropped 2,000ft in half a minute on their outbound pass by 170kt winds.

[stewfox]

I asked him why he hadn't left  https://twitter.com/DaveMcKlveen   

 

I guess its been a very quick 24hr turnaround

 

If you cant fly out where do you go when exact landfall hasn't been determined

[Summer Sun]

Here's another live stream of Patricia

 

[feb1991blizzard]

I guess its been a very quick 24hr turnaround

 

If you cant fly out where do you go when exact landfall hasn't been determined

 

Should have just made a mad run for it as soon as it was predicted yesterday, just drive as far as you can to the other side of the country, just have to trust your best meteorological judgement and hope for the best, better than just staying right near the coast.

Here's another live stream of Patricia

 

 

What timeframe is it that we will actually be seeing something resembling a CAT 5 hurricane on these webcams, I understand the fact that it probably wont last long when we do though.

[Summer Sun]

Should have just made a mad run for it as soon as it was predicted yesterday, just drive as far as you can to the other side of the country, just have to trust your best meteorological judgement and hope for the best, better than just staying right near the coast.

 

What timeframe is it that we will actually be seeing something resembling a CAT 5 hurricane on these webcams, I understand the fact that it probably wont last long when we do though.

 

Estimates are around midnight UK time but this may change

[Spikecollie]

Recon flight hasn't had much luck either, plane was dropped 2,000ft in half a minute on their outbound pass by 170kt winds.

Mlllaahh! I know those research folks are used to severe turbulence, but I have reached for "the bag" in a quite a bit less! Yuck!

[feb1991blizzard]

Estimates are around midnight UK time but this may change

 

Should get a bit breezy though before then.

[Summer Sun]

Should get a bit breezy though before then.

 

Aye, if it keeps to its estimated landfall time we should see things starting to get worse in the next 90 minutes or so you can see the sea is starting to get choppier

[tinybill]

cat  5  stongest  ever   ass  to the  met people

[DAVID SNOW]

And nor do we want such extreme weather!! It would be truly devastating on an epic scale! Agree with Moki - Patricia will cause major major problems whether you happen to be poor or wealthy. 

 

Wanted or not its what 'weather' does. And as the president of Mexico has said " This is a natural phenomenon"

 

People pay big money to chase extreme weather in the states, knowing the chance in a life time to see an f5 (from a safe distance) could easily course many deaths.

 

Not directed at you, but what are folk viewing these live webcams expecting to see........?

[weatherobsuk]

http://digg.com/video/hurricane-patricia-livestream

 

must be tourists, there's people out on the beach on this one

[stevofunnelcl]

one crumb of comfort, those 200mph winds are a narrow band near the eye.

 

it's 75 to 200mph winds within that narrow band.

 

People about 40 miles from the core, will probably only get tropical storm conditions

 

It'll be real bad in that core though

[feb1991blizzard]

I was just thinking if theres a Daily Express in Mexico they would have got this one absolutely bang on the money!!!

[Summer Sun]

Some of the areas which are directly in Patricia's path are starting to switch off their electricity

[Nick F]

Katrina peaked at 150kts with pressure of 902mb. So yeah, Patricia is much stronger.

Most the damage created by Katrina was from the storm surge rather than the winds too. I guess Patricia *should* weaken quicker than Katrina as it hits mountains on landfall compared to the low lying deep south of USA, but Patricia is a different beast and is obviously making landfall a lot more powerful!

[BornFromTheVoid]

Interesting chart of wind speed vs minimum pressure

 

[lottiekent]

Close to some pretty strong winds making landfall now:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-105.76,15.42,3000

Edited October 23, 2015 by lottiekent

[JoeShmoe]

Where is the narrow band going to make landfall , what's the nearest town ?

[Steve C]

I remember that, i was only nine at the time and I thought the world was coming to an end.. this is twice as bad.  

A lot worse than twice as bad. Remembering that the force of a 200mph wind is 4 times that of a 100mph one. (200 divided by 100, squared)

[ThundersnowDays]

I'm really worried I will wake up to a repeat of Hiayan

[Hurricane Debby]

I was just thinking if theres a Daily Express in Mexico they would have got this one absolutely bang on the money!!!

 

lol ! Very funny and true !

[Boro Snow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5Y4lISF0s

 

Wind defo picking up now on this cam

 

omg and somebody has just walked across the cam

Edited October 23, 2015 by Boro Snow

[Summer Sun]

Conditions are starting to deteriorate now in Guerrero as Patricia gets closer

[Hurricane Debby]

The Weather Channel twitter already reporting damage out of Manzanillo