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And even though it's rapidly weakening, our experts still call hurricane patricia, quote, historic because before it made landfall, it was the strongest storm ever measured in the western hemisphere and it was also the second strongest storm ever observed globally behind typhoon tip in the western hemisphere in 1979. hurricane patricia had the strongest winds ever observed, and when it was over the western pacific the storm intensified very, very quickly, one of the fattest on record. at 12:01 thursday patricia was a tropical storm and then at 5:30 a.m. friday morning it had become a categor...
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