Hurricane Rick was a Category 5 storm on October 18, 2009, near the time when this MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image. Several hundred kilometers southwest of Baja California, the storm had winds of 160 miles per hour (260 kilometers per hour), down from an estimated 180 mph (290 km/h) the previous evening at 8:00 p.m. The strongest eastern North Pacific storm in more than a decade, Rick moved in a northeastward arc, making landfall as a weakened storm tropical storm north of the resort of Mazatlan, Mexico on the 21st.