2015-10-24 08:00:00

Hurricane Patricia makes landfall in Mexico


(Vatican Radio)  Hurricane Patricia is heading across mountain ranges inland from Mexico's southwestern coast.  Authorities are carefully monitoring its progress, as the most powerful weather phenomenon the Americas have ever experienced.

Listen to James Blears' report:

Hurricane Patricia made landfall in a relatively remote part of Jalisco State, 95kms from the Port City of Manzanillo, with wind gusts which were initially 270 kms per hour but have lessened over land, but which remain highly dangerous.

Forcasters say that in the coming hours, the whole region could be drenched with up to 40 percent of its anual rainfall.

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto, who's advising poeple to stay at home and indoors, says the nation is facing a force of nature it has never encountered or experienced before, which poses a threat on a massive scale.

He's referred to it as a Force Six hurricane. A step above the current existing chart.

Mexico's Armed Forces and Civil Defence Forces have been deployed to the affected areas to help with what is expected to be a huge and prolonged clearing-up operation.








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