On Today's Date: Hurricane Patricia Smashes Global Wind Record

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On Today's Date: Hurricane Patricia Smashes Global Wind Record

An Eastern Pacific hurricane set a global and hemispheric record 10 years ago. But its impact in Mexico was refreshingly strange in one aspect.

By Jonathan Erdman • just now

While most attention is usually paid to Atlantic Basin hurricanes, an Eastern Pacific hurricane set a global and hemispheric record 10 years ago, but then had little impact at landfall.

On Oct. 23, 2015, 10 years ago this morning, Hurricane Patricia reached its peak intensity in the eastern Pacific Ocean about 150 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.

That it was a Category 5 at the time was attention-grabbing enough.

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