How to avoid Mexico Bullet Hurricane Patricia

Mexico City: Mexico dodged a bullet when Patricia monster hurricane did not respond to the devastating huge areas of the country a threat. What saved the Mexicans?

Experts say that Mexico was saved from serious injury to a large extent thanks to the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains, which slowed Patricia anger.

Coastal zones are produced in the western coastal state of Jalisco as well sparsely populated fishing village whose residents were evacuated to shelters.

Preventive evacuation by authorities play an important role, together with a lower pressure affect north orbit Patricia.

Patricia rocked the Pacific coast as a huge Category Five hurricane late on Friday, but nearly 24 hours of President Enrique Peña Nieto said that there is no significant damage has been detected.

Dozens of houses were flattened Chameli, a fishing village in Jalisco state, and 250 people were affected by floods elsewhere.

But there was a lot of destruction of the hurricane is expected to put up a record 325 km (200 miles) per hour winds to the coast.

When Patricia struck the coast, the winds decreased to 270 km per hour, and gradually lost momentum as it moved inland.

The Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said Mexico "lucky" that Patricia took a last minute turn and hit the Sierra Madre.

Nature was kind-hearted, "he said.

Uninhabited area

Pier Luigi Vidale professor of climate system science British Reading University, said that the highest winds Patricia radius of 12 kilometers was very small, so it fits well in the space between Campo Acosta and La Barra de Navidad cities.

"This issue is exposure: fortunately, did quite uninhabited coastal area," he said.

Although the next eyewall winds with a maximum radius of 100 kilometers, between two populated places distance was about the same.

Storm directly into the Sierra del cual, just run through uninhabited areas and quickly lost intensity. We could not be more fortunate, "said Vidale.

Patricia also had an impact on the low pressure extending from the country's north-west interaction, Leodegario Sanson said the president of Mexico meteorologist agency.

Low pressure stole some of the hurricane, and acceleration from the northeast of the storm movement of clouds and mountains, Sanson told AFP.

In the last 24 hours, Patricia gradually weakens to a tropical storm, depression and low balance "as it moved northeast, according to the US National Hurricane Center.

The Philippines was not so lucky when Super Typhoon Haiyan, 315 kph winds left more than 7.350 dead or missing when it struck in November 2013th

"Among the countries such as the Philippines and Mexico, conditions are very different," said Jaime Albarran Ascension, meteorologist Mexico Government National Weather Service.

"There are (Philippines), there were many people jostling near the coast and hurricane took them," she said.

But of course Patricia said, houses were built better and was "very good information" population.