I would have put OT but a hurricane is weather....right? Besides I'm apparently kill filed anyway


But here's Jame's Delingpoles article , quite funny really.

Yes I've seen the arguments that it was the a very powerful storm but it did fill 40mb in 24 hours and rapidly collapsed into a cat 2.

So the biggest recorded storm at sea and a cat 2 on landfall. I suppose there is an argument it was luck that it missed populated areas but even so the geography of the western Mexican coastline means that Hurricanes have to rise over the mountainous area thus collapsing their strength.

Paul Homeward presents a good breakdown of event and far better than I ever could.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.word...cane-patricia/



So the greatest Hurricane ever in the Americas turns out no worse than some uprooted trees, flooding and nowhere near the devastation of hurricane of 1959 (not named then) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Mexico_hurricane



Overall we should be thankful it did down grade rapidly and that advanced warnings would have mitigated loss of life but surely not structural damage.