Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia of 2015 at its record peak intensity
Voting period ends on 5 Nov 2015  at 02:21:28 (UTC)
 * Reason:High-resolution image of a historic storm at its peak intensity. The stars aligned perfectly for NASA's Terra satellite to capture Hurricane Patricia in all its glory simultaneous with a Hurricane Hunter mission that observed the record values (further details here: Hurricane Patricia). Beautiful structure, as expected, and frankly one of the finest images of a hurricane I've ever seen. The unique timing from a Sun-synchronous orbiting satellite and the ground-truth data from recon sets this image apart from others in terms of historic value; the image was taken at 17:30 UTC and the dropsonde that confirmed the record low pressure was launched at 17:33 UTC.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Hurricane Patricia, 2015 Pacific hurricane season, Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes, List of the most intense tropical cyclones, List of Pacific hurricanes
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather
 * Creator:Image was created by NASA via their Terra Satellite (original, raw images here: ). Data was extracted from their EOSDIS Worldview webpage and slightly modified by Meow to reduce over-exposure and center the image on the storm. A non-storm centered, "gallery" version provided by NASA has also been uploaded here: File:Patricia 2015-10-23 1730Z (gallery).jpg.


 * Support as nominator – ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 02:21, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. Quite high quality and very encyclopedic. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:09, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support majestic and disquieting Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 04:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Yann (talk) 08:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:56, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – well-timed, high-quality capture of one of the most significant tropical cyclones in recent history. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 02:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Jobas (talk) 15:51, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support, high EV. sst✈discuss 17:42, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 03:08, 5 November 2015 (UTC)