GOES Animation of Hurricane Patricia (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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At 8 a.m. EDT on Oct. 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center reported Patricia became the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record with sustained winds near 200 mph. This animation of images captured from Oct. 20 to 23 from NOAA's GOES-West satellite shows Hurricane Patricia near western Mexico.

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Credits: NASA/NOAA GOES Project

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