NASA/NOAA satellites have been tracking the progress of Hurricane Patricia
off the southwestern coast of Mexico.
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Originally Posted by NASA
On October 22, Patricia was a Category one hurricane. By 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center reported Patricia became the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record with sustained winds near 200 mph (320km/h)
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NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured images that have been turned into an animation and which can be viewed here -
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...n-pacific-2015
The Sydney Morning Herald also reports here in a story entitled "Hurricane Patricia: Hemisphere's strongest ever hurricane bearing down on Mexico"
by Brian K. Sullivan and Kelly Gilblom.
See
http://www.smh.com.au/world/hurrican...23-gkhff8.html
NOAA reported earlier this week that "for the first nine months of 2015, average surface temperatures are running at 0.85 degrees above the
20th-century average, exceeding the previous equal warm stints in 2010 and 2014 by 0.12 degrees."
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Originally Posted by Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said this month that the El Nino was now on course to challenge the 1997-98 event as the strongest on record, and was not expected to peak until late this year
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That story here -
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/cl...21-gkf8b0.html
Meantime the BBC is reporting that "Mexican authorities have begun evacuating residents ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Patricia."
"A state of emergency has been declared in three states in Patricia's path."
"The category five hurricane is expected to make landfall in the next few hours, with winds of 305km/h (190mph)."
BBC story here -
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34614864