Interfectum
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Christ this is going to be a tragic storm. I hope you GAFers and your families stay safe.
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Hurricane Patricia, strongest east pacific hurricane, set to make landfall in Mexico
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A scientist and gentleman in the manner of Batman.
Typically at this latitude, the Atlantic Ocean is warmer than the Pacific. But with El Niño warming up Pacific waters, that's likely influencing these cyclones starting up on the western coast of North America.
Houston projected 5-6 inches of rain from this on Saturday and Sunday
StopMakingSense
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Unprecedented El Niño yields unprecedented hurricane.
It can get pretty rough. Remember March when all those Rocket fans got stuck overnight in Toyota Center after a playoff game from the flooding then? It just usually happens when a lot of rain is dropped fast.
City is basically built on a giant swamp so the water takes a while to run off or soak into the ground
maquiladora
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It all happened very quickly, nobody was expecting it to get this intense.
StopMakingSense
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It went from 70 knots to 170 knots in less than 24 hours.
Alebrije
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Yep specially at the end of hurricane season, in fact there were little or no hurricanes and then Patricia appears like if all the forces were waiting to join on a lonely superhurricane.
here in SA, from local NWS.
local weatherdude is also projecting at least a foot of rain. we shall see.
That is an absolute monster. I've experienced at Category 4, and it was pretty damn wild. This is a Cat 5, but it's really a Cat 5+ or a Cat 6, it's almost off the charts.
This one is going to sort the well engineered buildings from the the not-so-well.
There's no chance that this isn't devastating to the communities it hits but I dearly hope that people can stay safe and there's as little life lost as possible. A blown down house can be rebuilt. A lost life is lost forever.
There's also a sick part of me that has always gotten excited whenever a hurricane blew through that wishes I could be out there to experience it.
Having lived in a hurricane-prone region more than half my life, I feel like this is exaggerated. If you bumped them all up one level then I'd mostly agree with it. (Meaning put the tropical storm description to Cat 1, move Cat 1 description to Cat 2 etc).
This one is going to sort the well engineered buildings from the the not-so-well.
There's no chance that this isn't devastating to the communities it hits but I dearly hope that people can stay safe and there's as little life lost as possible. A blown down house can be rebuilt. A lost life is lost forever.
There's also a sick part of me that has always gotten excited whenever a hurricane blew through that wishes I could be out there to experience it.
Having lived in a hurricane-prone region more than half my life, I feel like this is exaggerated. If you bumped them all up one level then I'd mostly agree with it. (Meaning put the tropical storm description to Cat 1, move Cat 1 description to Cat 2 etc).
aspiegamer
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Here's the first visible image of the day. Goddamn.
Interfectum
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Here's the first visible image of the day. Goddamn.
holy fuck
Yea pretty standard for the state lots of rain real fast then it's gone. I hope we don't flood again but being known as flash flood alley I'm sure we will.
maquiladora
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If that scale continued onward past Cat 5 with the same increments than Patricia would be a Cat 7.
Anyway, recon flight due to take off in 30 mins. Surely it will have peaked already by the time they reach there though.
Here's the first visible image of the day. Goddamn.
Who cares about what is happening on Jupiter right now?
Oh...
Man this is scary stuff. My uncle left his home on the beach last night and spent the night at my grandparents' house. That's still like only six miles from the coast. I am kinda concerned about the mudslides because my relatives are all surrounded by mountains. Also my grandpa's roof doesn't look too great. I hope it's able to withstand the winds. That picture above with the house losing its roof has me a little worried.
Alebrije
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I am very worried for the poor people, that kind of hurricane on an third world
country is a bad mix. Just in Colima there are more than 200,000 people living on this kind of "houses" :
Specially located near the coast , surely they will be blow away. Army has been evacuating the area since yesterday , hope the people go to refugees.
country is a bad mix. Just in Colima there are more than 200,000 people living on this kind of "houses" :
Specially located near the coast , surely they will be blow away. Army has been evacuating the area since yesterday , hope the people go to refugees.
here in SA, from local NWS.
local weatherdude is also projecting at least a foot of rain. we shall see.
This is going to make the F1 weekend really interesting.
Rekwest
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I waching this webcam from Puerto Vallarta everything looks so calm now.
http://www.webcamsdemexico.com/videos.php?v=5oCpWyCYP_M&streams=1
http://www.webcamsdemexico.com/videos.php?v=5oCpWyCYP_M&streams=1
And this is for a proper well-structured house. People living in the mexican coast tend to be very poor
So I really, really hope they're getting as far as they can from the coast as we speak.I think the date is wrong... You can see it in the top right. It says 22th.
This is a once in a generation kind of storm, maybe even beyond that. Hope everyone in the area stays safe, but there's only so safe you can get in the face of something like this.
While this is far from foremost in my mind, it'll actually probably make it really boring. They just don't run in the wet like they used to, for safety reasons.
Edit: Fucking hell
While this is far from foremost in my mind, it'll actually probably make it really boring. They just don't run in the wet like they used to, for safety reasons.
Edit: Fucking hell
maquiladora
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Taking a wobble/turn to the right.
Tyrant Rave
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That storm looks terrifying
Check this - it's a similar question + answer only concerning nuking hurricanes. If a nuke wouldn't do anything, perhaps a hypersonic missile would be a waste as well.
Veritigo_X
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Holy hell, that thing is huge. Is the Mexican government working to evacuate the area?
Some of the webcams are going down, but this one's still live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9QogL9IyE
It's a considerable distance from where it's due to hit and it already looks rough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9QogL9IyE
It's a considerable distance from where it's due to hit and it already looks rough.
God Dayumm
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Here's the first visible image of the day. Goddamn.
Damn I bet the earth looks like Jupiter right now with its huge storm eye
Hope the government and the people are mobilizing quickly to take safety measures
Posts on reddit report that tourists are being evacuated from resorts. Where to, I dunno - perhaps Guadalajara? There's not many places where people could evacuate to on such short notice.
Mexico City is shielded from hurricane winds since it's located on a high valley plateau surrounded by high mountains. Rain fall can cause severe disruption in the city itself and be dangerous for certain outskirts poor zones like Valle the Chalco and illegal settlements on hillsides.
Hurricanes are an important source of water for several zones, though.
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