Originating from a sprawling disturbance near the Gulf of Tehuantepec, south of Mexico, in mid-October 2015, Patricia … Hurricane Patricia was classified as a category 5 hurricane when it hit land, north of the popular tourist town, Puerto Vallarta, but was quickly downgraded to a tropical depression. Patricia already has "put on quite a show" in how rapidly and unexpectedly it has strengthened, he said.Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines in 2013, made landfall with 190 mph winds.While Patricia weakened slightly to 190 mph winds since the afternoon, "Patricia is expected to remain an extremely dangerous category 5 hurricane through landfall," the NHC said.

ET Friday.At 5 p.m. At the hotel on Thursday, she said, guests were told that they could be evacuated by bus to Guadalajara, Jalisco's capital city located further inland.Griffin said she decided to take her chances at the airport early Friday, but flights out were looking grim. "But Australian newlywed Natalie Griffin said Friday that she and her husband were trying to catch an early flight out of Puerto Vallarta after five days of vacationing. The report says that two small villages, Emiliano Zapata and Chamela, suffered the most extreme damage.Coastal flooding lasted several days from the states of Jalisco to Guererro, with damage to structures and beach erosion. try again, the name must be unique "Up to 20 inches of rain was predicted for the Mexican states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero through Saturday, the NHC said.The Mexican government declared a state of emergency.Rogelio Estreda, a representative for the Grand Fiesta Americana Resort in Puerto Vallarta, told NBC News that the site would be evacuated at 7 a.m. local time (8 a.m. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Boys play in the receding floodwaters two days after the passage of Hurricane Patricia in the village of Rebalse, Jalisco state, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. Find Hurricane Patricia Latest News, Videos & Pictures on Hurricane Patricia and see latest updates, news, information from NDTV.COM. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/texas-flood-watch-heavy-storms-34673804 real-world solutions, and more. "It's almost as if it's literally 'the calm before the storm,'" she said. Hurricane Patricia was the most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide in terms of wind speed and the second-most intense on record worldwide in terms of pressure, behind Typhoon Tip in 1979, with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 872 mbar (hPa; 25.75 inHg).

try again, the name must be uniquePlease Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early Friday, with experts warning it could trigger 40-foot waves along southwestern Mexico and "life-threatening" flash flooding.More than 7 million residents — and an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. citizens visiting or living there — were told to prepare for the "worst-case scenario" as the ferocious storm was expected to race ashore on Mexico's Pacific coast between 6 to 10 p.m. try again, the name must be uniquePlease At the helm is Flight Engineer Joseph Diane Klippel. At the level the flight crews were flying, winds were estimated to be around 220 mph.Patricia weakened rapidly before landfall, undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, but still managed to set a record low pressure for any Mexico Pacific hurricane landfall, estimated at 932 millibars. Get breaking news alerts and special reports. Incredibly, just 30 hours after peaking in intensity as the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere, former Hurricane Patricia degenerated into a weak remnant low over northeast Mexico, its small circulation ripped apart over higher terrain inland.While a number of typhoons in the western North Pacific have been stronger, Patricia is by far the strongest hurricane on record in any basin where the term "hurricane" applies to tropical cyclones – namely, the central and eastern North Pacific basins and the North Atlantic basin, which includes the North Atlantic Ocean itself plus the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.We recognize our responsibility to use data and technology for good. to your comment. Meteorologist Jennifer Gray has more. "Fiona Bronte, 24, said she first checked into the Vidanta resort in Puerto Vallarta on Saturday with her grandparents and parents. As Hurricane Patricia strengthened to become the strongest ever storm to hit the western hemisphere, researchers were still flying straight into it.Footage captured a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plane passing through the eye of the hurricane several times on Thursday and Friday, as wind speeds on the ground reached 200mph.In one video, the camera can be seen shaking violently as the plane is surrounded by clouds and rain, before a brief few minutes of respite in the storm’s very centre, when the ground below can clearly be seen.Here I am in flight station about to fly in to the eye wall of Hurricane Patricia.

Patricia roared into southwestern Mexico then rapidly crumbled Saturday, hours after it hit luxury resorts and impoverished villages with equal ferocity.