The strongest hurricane "Patricia" fell upon Mexico

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Today the hurricane "Patricia" fell upon the Pacific coast of Mexico. Meteorologists call a hurricane the strongest in the history of the Western hemisphere. Under a brunt of the disaster there was a large port Manzanillo and the popular resort Puerto-Vallarta

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Most strongly a hurricane mentioned the staff of Halisko in which Puerto-Vayart's sea resort, with the population more than 250 thousand people is located.

Also under a brunt of the disaster got the largest Pacific seaport of Mexico of Manzanillo. In the city lives more than 160 thousand people.

to the Hurricane was appropriated to a href by "https://t.co/p8NuIsGZDu" the fifth category of danger on Saffira-Simpson's scale. Later, in process of storm advance far inland, category of danger lowered to the fourth.

The storm affected also the South of the Western coast of the USA.

Governors of the Mexican states Colima, Halisko and Nayarit on the coast of the Pacific Ocean reported that the hurricane "Patricia" yet did not cause damage to these territories. The national coordinator of service of civil defense of Mexico Luís Felipe Puente urged the population to remain on the alert as the first wave which has passed without special consequences of a hurricane can be accompanied by new brunts of the disaster, reports RIA Novosti news agency. the National space agency of the USA provided to p satellite filming of advance of a hurricane to the coast of Mexico.