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EL Niño event and exceptional cyclones in the Eastern Pacific:
California September 1939 (+ heat and rain ) ./. October 2015 -

Exceptional tropical cyclone hit  in September 1939

   In September 1939 the sun state had to cope with a number of weather caprioles. The unanswered question until today is what role an El Niño event had in that place at that time, and the contribution of war activities in China and Europe, due to the excessive release of condensation nuclei.
….. on the 25^th with winds of severe gale force. The up to 11 Beaufort strong winds were the only tropical storm to make landfall in California in the twentieth century…….

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/enso/tropstorm.nws

...SEPTEMBER 1939... FOUR STORMS IMPACTED SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THAT MONTH…DURING THE EL NINO OF 1938-39)

NEAR THE END OF THE MONTH...A TROPICAL CYCLONE MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST MOVED ONSHORE AT LONG BEACH AT TROPICAL STORM STORM
STRENGTH WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 50 MPH. THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN
EASTERN PACIFIC TROPICAL CYCLONE TO MOVE ONSHORE INTO SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA AT TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH.

Strongest hurricane ever recorded,
Patricia is expected Friday
23. October 2015

Now the strongest hurricane ever recorded, Hurricane Patricia is expected to deal a severe blow to parts of the western Mexico coast.
The hurricane, which exploded to Cat. 5 strength with winds of at least 200 mph, is forecast to make landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast Friday, bringing damaging winds, heavy rainfall and storm surge flooding.

__Hurricane Patricia: Mexico awaits 'strongest ever' storm (BBC: 23/10 ,16h UTC) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34614864

HURRICANE PATRICIA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER  17A
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       EP202015
100 AM CDT SAT OCT 24 2015
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPEP5+shtml/240557.shtml

DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK

At 100 AM CDT (0600 UTC), the center of Hurricane Patricia was located near latitude 21.4 North, longitude 104.0 West. Patricia is moving toward the north-northeast near 20 mph (31 km/h). Patricia is
forecast to move quickly north-northeastward farther inland over northern and northeastern Mexico during the next day or so.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 100 mph (155 km/h) with higher gusts.  Patricia is a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.  Rapid weakening is expected to
continue, and Patricia is forecast to become a tropical storm later this morning, and a tropical depression this afternoon.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km).
The estimated minimum central pressure is 970 mb (28.64 inches).

 CNN; 0457 GMT, October 24, 2015: Hurricane Patricia weakened to a Category 4 storm Friday night with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, but remained "extremely dangerous" over southwestern Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said. Patricia made landfall hours earlier as a Category 5 storm, the fiercest.

WEATHER.CON; Oct 24 2015 02:02 AM EDT:  Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever known to make landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico after the center of its eye crossed the coast of Jalisco state early Friday evening.

THE TELEGRAPH, 6:16AM BST 24 Oct 2015: Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Americas, hits Mexico's Pacific coast - follow latest updates as storm makes landfall on Friday night.

WEATHER.COM, Oct 24 2015 06:17 AM EDT: Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever known to make landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico after the center of its eye crossed the coast of Jalisco state early Friday evening. Its winds are rapidly losing strength as its center of circulation slices into the interior of southwest Mexico overnight.
Earlier Friday, Patricia became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph) and its central pressure fell to 879 millibars (25.96 inches of mercury).

NYT, OCT. 24, 2015: In the end, Hurricane Patricia left as suddenly as it came. After roaring to life in the warm waters over the Pacific, transforming practically overnight into a Category 5 storm with winds of 200 miles per hour, it had all but dissipated by Saturday morning, little more than 12 hours after touching land. By 4 p.m., it no longer ranked as a tropical storm.

(CNN )Hurricane Patricia has set a new record for lowest pressure and
highest sustained wind speed reported in a hurricane.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/23/weather/hurricane-patricia-comparison/
Severest storms (Category 5) in the Western Hemisphere (without tropical cyclones and typhoons)

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879 mb

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