Hurricane Patricia

Off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, bearing world record wind speeds (200 mph) and low pressure (880 millibars).  

Thank you Al Gore.

Ten to twenty foot storm surge expected

Ten to twelve inches of rain expected, as far away as Houston, San Antonio, New Orleans.  Whole Gulf Coast, as well as West coast of Mexico. Potentially thousands of casualties.

Quote :

"That's almost like an F4 or F5 tornado that can be 5 or 6 miles wide, just tearing up the coast as it makes landfall," said Myers. "... Can you imagine being the center of this eye, ... and then get hit by the eye wall doing 200 mph?

"It will be a devastating blow."

That's a big damned storm.

Quote :

Patricia is "the strongest hurricane on record in the National Hurricane Center's area of responsibility (AOR) which includes the Atlantic and the eastern North Pacific basins,"

Storm centered on uninhabited coastline, and dissipated shortly after landfall.

Tragedy averted.

Harbinger of things to come though.

Here's a question though, with 200 mph winds and record low millibars, would the storm moving over the Pacific Ocean suck water & fish (and sharks) out of the ocean and spray them into the air?