after making landfall. in mexico, it was category 5 storm and now all of the moisture heading to texas is already reeling from massive flooding. huricane patricia lacked pretty awesome from 250 miles up. look at this image taken from the international space station and posted to twitter by american senate scott kelly. now, it is going behind the science of the massive storm is our chief meteorologist the head dork in the weather center. >> you love this stuff. >> i of although it too, but i don't get it like you do. why was this so historic? >> a number of reasons but i start off when you talk about how difficult some of these things are to forecast. have you been in the ocean and hit a cool patch. >> i wonder, why? >> that is the atmosphere. if you say, where is the cold water going, that is difficult.