Hurricane Patricia set records for the highest maximum sustained winds
ever recorded in a tropical cyclone and the second-lowest barometric
pressure (after Typhoon Tip of 1979). Originating near the Gulf of
Tehuantepec off the Pacific coast of southern Mexico, the system was
classified as a tropical depression on October 20, 2015. The next day
it became a tropical storm, the twenty-fourth named storm of the 2015
Pacific hurricane season. The following day it grew from a tropical
storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours. The National
Hurricane Center ultimately estimated that Patricia attained winds of
215 mph (345 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 872 mbar (hPa;
25.75 inHg). The storm made landfall on October 23 near Cuixmala,
Jalisco, in a significantly weakened state, but it was still the
strongest recorded hurricane to strike Mexico's Pacific coast, with
winds estimated at 150 mph (240 km/h).
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Patricia>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1939:
Pope Pius XII published his first encyclical, Summi
Pontificatus, critiquing ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority
and totalitarianism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summi_Pontificatus>
1951:
African-American college football player Johnny Bright was the
victim of an on-field assault that eventually provoked changes in NCAA
football rules and mandated the use of more protective helmets with face
guards.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bright_incident>
2011:
Libyan Civil War: Deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi was captured
by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte and killed less than an hour
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
knacker's yard:
1. The area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human
consumption or other purposes are rendered down to produce useful
materials such as glue.
2. (colloquial, figuratively) A (notional) place to send a person or
object that is spent beyond all reasonable use.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/knacker%27s_yard>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost
spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not
beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more
acceptable is it in the presence of God.
--The Báb
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B%C3%A1b>
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