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Hurricane Patricia Nears Mexico

The strongest hurricane ever recorded around the Americas is set for landfall on the southwest coast of Mexico.


NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory map (bottom) by Joshua Stevens, using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 24, 2015
Data acquired October 23, 2015

Sources:
ISS > RapidScat
Terra > MODIS