Huge Hurricane Heading for Mexico

[Amazing Larry]

Category 5 heading for Puerta Vallarta. Strongest hurricane ever in the Western Hemisphere.

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-braces-for-patricia-20151023-story.html

[wopphil]

Wonder if we will get any rain out of it.

[Glen]

They should name it Hurricane Trump.

[Stradling]

Wonder if we will get any rain out of it.

AO is currently stocking up on supplies just in case.

Those supplies are vaseline and tissues.

[m0nkey]

They should name it Hurricane Trump.

This was good

[fan_since79]

[Glen]

AO is currently stocking up on supplies just in case.

Those supplies are vaseline and tissues.

And when we don't get rain he'll moan about the starry eyed weather forecasters.

[fan_since79]

There's actually a "Hurricane Channel" and you can watch the whole thing live. Check your local cable provider or use this link:

 

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

Edited October 23, 2015 by fan_since79

[red321]

I haven't read his weather thread...is he a whiner in that thread as well?

 

 

Read that the Hurricane went from a Tropical Storm to Cat 5 in a matter of hours. Sounds like it's going to be horrendous.

[fan_since79]

Some American tourists interviewed in Puerto Vallarta said they'll be staying put and "riding it out".

 

How stupid can one be?

[gotbeer]

Freakin El Nino.

[Angel Oracle]

In the baseball threads, it's called venting and not whining.

In the weather thread, it's concern over 4.5 years of drought and the damage done, and the boredom of constant day after day of the same weather.

Is it better than the East Coast?   Duh.    But it can get boring too, when you like the normal SoCal seasonal changes that haven't happened since 2010-11. 

Edited October 23, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[Jay]

I heard one woman interviewed on the radio this morning.  She's in Puerto Vallarta.  She said they went and stocked up on water, and they have plenty of groceries in the house.  Then she said something about people standing out in the street chatting but they are taking the hurricane seriously.

 

The interviewer said it's the worst hurricane in 50 years.

 

Then she said (paraphrasing), "these storms dissipate when they hit the mountains and we're hoping that will happen this time.  It's hard to know what to expect from what you read on facebook"

 

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Must be nice living in Puerto Vallarta, completely disconnected from any sense of urgency.

[gotbeer]

 

 

Must be nice living in Puerto Vallarta, completely disconnected from any sense of urgency.

 

Gringos and their urgency.  

[Homebrewer]

That thing is huge.

Scary huge.

Been going to PV since the 70's. Watched that place grow from 5 hotels to maybe 500 (or whatever there are now)

Stretching from Mismaloya (Where they filmed "Night of the Iguana") north to Bucerias (in Nayarit State)

It is now solid neighborhoods and hotels. The way it sits against the mountains with a major river system emptying into the town area..

it could be devastating.

I wouldn't be staying for the party. I've done that in los cabos (east cape)...but there is nothing close to the population there, that there is in PV.

[HaloCory22]

Great. This hurricane is going to push all the Mexicans further north and into America. Build the wall!

 

-Trump

[ten ocho recon scout]

Is it close enough to us that in a few days we can expect shitty humid weather again?

[Homebrewer]

This one is forecast to track inland and to the NE...so no.

Southern Texas and even the gulf states might get the remnants.

The mountains it is heading into are massive, and will break it up, but they are going to get hammered in the process.

"Very Heavy to Torrential" rain forecast.

Not sure I have seen that one on NOAA before.

Edited October 23, 2015 by Homebrewer

[nate]

Thanks, Obama

[red321]

The mountains can break it up and dissipate the winds...but that moisture still has to go somewhere and a stalled out storm over the mountains won't be pretty.

[Homebrewer]

This happened to Mexico in the last el nino in 96-97.

They got battered from both sides over and over.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Great website to view latest wind animations, and other weather-related stuff:

https://www.windyty.com/?17.926,-104.156,7

[Homebrewer]

whoa ...cool stuff

[Amazing Larry]

That's crazy that there are onshore winds right now even though the hurricane is coming toward land.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Then she said (paraphrasing), "these storms dissipate when they hit the mountains and we're hoping that will happen this time.  It's hard to know what to expect from what you read on facebook"

 

If they are getting their weather from Facebook, it's all good.