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Hurricane Patricia Becomes Most Intense Tropical Cyclone Ever Recorded in Western Hemisphere
2015-10-23 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Stunning, historic, mind-boggling and catastrophic: that sums up Hurricane Patricia, which intensified to an incredible-strength Category 5 storm with 200 mph winds overnight. At 2:46 a.m. EDT Oct. 23, an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft measured a central pressure of 880 mb in Patricia, making it the most intense hurricane ever observed in the Western Hemisphere. The aircraft measured surface winds of 200 mph, which are the highest reliably-measured surface winds on record for a tropical cyclone,...
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