Damn :( :( :(
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/hurricane-patricia-races-mexicos-coast-185-mph-winds-n449731
QuoteAt 1:30 a.m. ET, Patricia was about 185 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, and about 270 miles south of Cabo Corrientes. It was moving swiftly to the north-northwest with maximum sustained winds estimated at 185 mph.
Hurricane warnings stretched from San Blas to Punta San Telmo, an area that includes Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo. CONAGUA, the Mexican national water commission, predicted waves up to 39 feet at landfall.
The National Hurricane Center said it was expected to remain "an extremely dangerous major hurricane" when it hits the coast, producing deadly rip currents, "life-threatening flash floods and mudslides."
It added: "Some fluctuations in intensity are possible today, but Patricia is expected to remain an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane through landfall."
Up to 20 inches of rain was predicted for the Mexican states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero through Saturday, the NHC said.
EDIT: Shit, it's gotten even stronger
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPEP5+shtml/230238.shtml
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SUMMARY OF 400 AM CDT...0900 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...17.0N 105.5W
ABOUT 160 MI...255 KM SSW OF MANZANILLO MEXICO
ABOUT 235 MI...380 KM S OF CABO CORRIENTES MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...200 MPH...325 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNW OR 340 DEGREES AT 12 MPH...19 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...880 MB...25.99 INCHES
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This years Pacific hurricane season and Pacific typhoon season have been incredible. El Nino on top of warmer-than-normal sea temperatures will do that. Fortunately it also results in wind shear over the Atlantic which has given us our fairly mild season.
Pacific Hurricanes rarely make landfall so an active Pacific and mild Atlantic is better than the reverse. Shitty luck that the strongest storm of the season actually does make landfall.
That said, I'm not looking forward to seeing what happens when there's no wind shear to interfere over warmer Atlantic waters. :(
Send them to us. The workers in HK hope to have typhoons every day. We get a day off and there is no real danger to us.
Hong Kong has a forcefield that prevents Typhoons from landing there, so no can do. Sorry. :(
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2015, 06:56:48 AM
Hong Kong has a forcefield that prevents Typhoons from landing there, so no can do. Sorry. :(
They're more affected by battles between giant robots and kaiju, really.
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Quote from: Monoriu on October 23, 2015, 06:02:00 AM
Send them to us. The workers in HK hope to have typhoons every day. We get a day off and there is no real danger to us.
Really? Even a storm with sustained winds of 322kph and a 12 meter storm surge?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 23, 2015, 07:13:49 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on October 23, 2015, 06:02:00 AM
Send them to us. The workers in HK hope to have typhoons every day. We get a day off and there is no real danger to us.
Really? Even a storm with sustained winds of 322kph and a 12 meter storm surge?
We all live in concrete and steel towers designed to withstand the strongest storms. It is rare to get any broken windows here even in the event of a direct hit. It is holiday time when a typhoon comes.
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2015, 06:56:48 AM
Hong Kong has a forcefield that prevents Typhoons from landing there, so no can do. Sorry. :(
That's actually a very popular saying here. We call it the "Lee's force field". Lee is HK's richest man, Lee Ka Shing. Whenever a typhoon misses us, we jokingly say it is Lee's force field at work, because he doesn't want us to have a day off. He wants us to stay in the offices to continue to work for him :lol:
Guy is a genius. He came to HK as a penniless kid. Worked his way upward as a factory boy, then manager, then owner. He is regularly ranked as one of the top 50 richest man in the world. At one time he and his family controlled 25% of the market capitalisation of the HK stock market, one of the 10 largest markets in the world.
You could just introduce some regular vacations instead of hoping for a natural disaster.
Quote from: Zanza on October 23, 2015, 09:15:13 AM
You could just introduce some regular vacations instead of hoping for a natural disaster.
I think we have 17 public holidays per year. That's a pretty high number when compared with western nations, I believe. Though 17 only applies to office workers. Blue collar workers get 12.
We get, on average, 1-3 typhoon hits per year. I don't think something that happens so frequently qualifies as a natural disaster. More like a regular weather condition. :lol:
El Nino usually means a warmer winter for us, which means little to no snow. :cool:
It also means a wetter winter, so it BETTER BE FUCKING WARM. :mad:
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2015, 09:45:00 AM
El Nino usually means a warmer winter for us, which means little to no snow. :cool:
It also means a wetter winter, so it BETTER BE FUCKING WARM. :mad:
You better not jinx it this year. The last few winters in the Ohio Valley have sucked and I blame you.
Bro, you ain't in the Ohio Valley. :rolleyes: spiess can claim that. YOU CANNOT.
Hell, I'm not even in the Ohio Valley. I work in it, but I live right by the highest point in the Bluegrass.
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2015, 09:55:49 AM
Bro, you ain't in the Ohio Valley. :rolleyes: spiess can claim that. YOU CANNOT.
Hell, I'm not even in the Ohio Valley. I work in it, but I live right by the highest point in the Bluegrass.
You don't know where I'm at now.
Unless Raz told him. :ph34r:
Dammit!
And technically cal, I live in the Ohio River basin, which encompasses most of the state. So kiss my rosy red buckeye ass.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 23, 2015, 10:02:51 AM
And technically cal, I live in the Ohio River basin
That doesn't mean shit. So are parts of northern Alabama and Georgia :rolleyes:
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2015, 10:11:14 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 23, 2015, 10:02:51 AM
And technically cal, I live in the Ohio River basin
That doesn't mean shit. So are parts of northern Alabama and Georgia :rolleyes:
Enough of your backtalk.
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Man I have nice tits. :cool:
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2015, 12:37:10 PM
Man I have nice tits. :cool:
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:hmm:
You broke Dwight. :(
Watch the video of it forming: https://twitter.com/islivingston/status/657541297796960256?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Like a movie monster coalescing out of the shadows to wreak havoc.
Less than a day's warning, too. Even Katrina, Wilma, etc. gave more warning than that. Even worse, it's not a location that gets hit often, like Florida or the Yucatan. I have no idea how well prepared that region of Mexico is, but I'm going to hazard "not very." Casualties will depend on how vulnerable the area is to landslides/mudslides (from the rain) and storm surge - NHC says 8-12 inches of rain, with up to 20 inches in areas. Gonna be bad. :(
EDIT: The Post's Capital Weather Gang (who give pretty decent weather reporting and analysis) says the expected path will take it between the two major cities in the region and they might just get heavy winds and rain, but avoid the worst. The storm's cat 5 wind area is pretty small, too, so with luck the damage will be limited.
Webcam set up on a beach that's right in front of it: http://www.lamanzanilla.info/web_cam.html
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 23, 2015, 10:14:35 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2015, 10:11:14 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 23, 2015, 10:02:51 AM
And technically cal, I live in the Ohio River basin
That doesn't mean shit. So are parts of northern Alabama and Georgia :rolleyes:
Enough of your backtalk.
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Just how many pics of dames getting slapped have you collected? :hmm:
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on October 23, 2015, 02:35:37 PM
Webcam set up on a beach that's right in front of it: http://www.lamanzanilla.info/web_cam.html
Looks comfy now.
But that's not gonna last long.
Quote from: Malthus on October 23, 2015, 02:45:31 PM
Just how many pics of dames getting slapped have you collected? :hmm:
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Here's one with famous people.
QuoteLooks comfy now.
But that's not gonna last long.
Yeah. A guy came out and wiped a water droplet off of it earlier. Not really sure it's a good idea to still be there.
The waves have definitely picked up. They were essentially little splashes earlier that were stopping only about halfway-ish to those two logs or whatever there. Reminded me of the little "waves" you get when there's a reef breaking the big stuff up.
Another one from a less "protected" beach, it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_GShxXtLx4
E: Oh Ixtapa. This is south of the other one.
Rubing?
Quote from: Malthus on October 23, 2015, 02:45:31 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 23, 2015, 10:14:35 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 23, 2015, 10:11:14 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 23, 2015, 10:02:51 AM
And technically cal, I live in the Ohio River basin
That doesn't mean shit. So are parts of northern Alabama and Georgia :rolleyes:
Enough of your backtalk.
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Just how many pics of dames getting slapped have you collected? :hmm:
On my laptop? Tons.
Bitches get stiches.
Damn that's not such a quiet beach anymore. The camera got knocked down for a moment, but someone there fixed it and wiped it off (!). The tree on the right just got trashed and the water jsut came up to almost where the camera is (you could see it when the camera got knocked to the side and down).
The first stream seems to be down, but the youtube one is up. The whole beach is going underwater with each wave.
Doesn't seem bad so far.
Never mind.
How close is the second video to where the shit is really going down? If it's not that close, yikes!
Ixtapa isn't all that close. The one that is now down was pretty much directly in the path of the thing. Ixtapa is probably...200 miles(ish?) away from there.
E: Closer to 300 according to the googletrons.
Here's some of the last bit of footage from that webcam that went down: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CSCN5NiWoAAzpA9.mp4
The worst winds are pretty well concentrated in this storm, so Ixtapa might not be as severely impacted as Manzanillo, which is getting/got clobbered.
Bob has a storm boner.
When I was in Mexico earlier this year, one thing that struck me is that it seemed like every building was of a concrete masonry construction. Even the slums seemed to be sturdily built. It was Yucatan peninsula, so it makes perfect sense. Hopefully that holds true for the parts of Mexico that are being hit now as well.
Quote from: mongers on October 23, 2015, 09:14:12 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 23, 2015, 09:11:33 PM
When I was in Mexico earlier this year, one thing that struck me is that it seemed like every building was of a concrete masonry construction. Even the slums seemed to be sturdily built. It was Yucatan peninsula, so it makes perfect sense. Hopefully that holds true for the parts of Mexico that are being hit now as well.
Some of those might just be tarted up/disguised cinderblock, which would be bad, very bad. :(
What do you mean by that? Just cinderblock piled up without mortar?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 23, 2015, 09:08:16 PM
Bob has a storm boner.
I've been doing research on disaster response and mitigation, and I'm doing my thesis on flood mitigation grants -_-
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2015, 09:02:45 PM
Here's some of the last bit of footage from that webcam that went down: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CSCN5NiWoAAzpA9.mp4
The worst winds are pretty well concentrated in this storm, so Ixtapa might not be as severely impacted as Manzanillo, which is getting/got clobbered.
It actually came back up for about 30-45 minutes after that happened, I guess if you got lucky with the refresh timing, but shit was just getting worse and worse until it got knocked over again then stopped broadcasting. I hope the dude that was running it/fixing it/wiping it off/etc is alright.
If he was evacuating then, he was too late. Best case for him is finding nearby high ground away from the surge, and hope there won't be any landslides.