The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang is providing excellent coverage of the hurricane. They issued this six minutes ago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capi...-mexico-friday/

"Patricia experienced a historic rate of intensification between Wednesday night and early Friday morning when its peak winds increased by 140 mph. It morphed from a loosely organized conglomeration of thunderstorms to the planet’s strongest and most wicked class of storm."


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