Gallery: Thank El Niño and Climate Change for Huge Hurricane Patricia
NOAA/NASA01hemispheric
Full disk image of the western hemisphere shows Patricia (circled) bearing down on Mexico.
NRL02nrl-vis
Taken from NOAA's GOES West satellite, this is one of the first visible satellite images taken the morning of October 23.
NOAA03noaa-insideeye
A window view from NOAA Corps P-3 Hurricane Hunter flying through Hurricane Patricia.
NOAA04radar-p3
Radar of Hurricane Patricia's eye, taken October 22 as NOAA's P-3 Hurricane Hunter flew through the storm.
NASA05oct-23-pat-cat5
An infrared image of Patricia from the GOES West satellite.
RAMMB/CIRA NASA/NOAA06patricia-rammbcira
An infrared image of Hurricane Patricia.
CIRA/RAMMB07wind-analysis
This is a wind field analysis done by the Center for Cooperative Research in the Atmosphere, at Colorado State University.
