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Weather Discussion => Hazardous Weather => Hurricane Central => Topic started by: Pop Light Brown on October 23, 2015, 03:31:47 PM
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The strongest hurricane in the Western Hemisphere is about to make landfall near Manzanillo, Mexico.
It's 200 mph winds - measured, not estimated - blows Andrew, Katrina, Gilbert, Camille and Wilma out of the water. It's pressure, which was 880 millibars this morning, fell a little bit more to 879 millibars. Only Super Typhoon Tip of 1979 had a lower pressure (870 millibars). It's a small storm, like Camille.
Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground has a good blog on the storm:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3165 (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3165)
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I remember waking up to Hurricane Wilma as a similar storm to this. This storm has The Weather Channel in storm alert. A Cat 5 is a big one anywhere. Any one recording this storm?
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This is truly an unprecedented storm and one that is going to cause a lot of terrible suffering for very, very many people.
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Has to be one of the most amazing pictures ever captured