{"id":290,"date":"2015-10-23T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:29:32","slug":"hurricane-patricia-now-the-strongest-hurricane-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"HURRICANE PATRICIA NOW THE STRONGEST HURRICANE EVER RECORDED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Patricia, in the eastern Pacific, is now the strongest hurricane ever recorded with maximum sustained winds of 200 mph. She is expected to make landfall, along the western Mexican coast around Manzanillo, later this afternoon or this evening as a powerful category 5 hurricane\u00a0with catastrophic results. As this powerful cyclone moves into Central Mexico, its outer bands and mid and upper level moisture\u00a0will be moving into North Texas interacting with an approaching cold front. This will exacerbate the heavy rain conditions here allowing for more rain to fall through Sunday. DFW Airport\u00a0has already picked-up\u00a0about\u00a05.18 inches of rain\u00a0and could easily get another 3 to\u00a05 inches by Sunday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_291\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hurrican-Patricia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hurrican-Patricia-300x200.png\" alt=\"Hurricane Patricia. Photo courtesy of the National Weather Service.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hurrican-Patricia-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hurrican-Patricia-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Hurrican-Patricia.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Patricia. Photo courtesy of the National Weather Service.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Patricia, in the eastern Pacific, is now the strongest hurricane ever recorded with maximum sustained winds of 200 mph. She is expected to make landfall, along the western Mexican coast around Manzanillo, later this afternoon or this evening as a powerful category 5 hurricane\u00a0with catastrophic results. As this powerful cyclone moves into Central Mexico, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfwweather.org\/wxblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}