A simple Google search shows the true origin of the image.
Neither are the following pictures of Patricia:
This is actually Maysak:
Even though these pictures, already shared by thousands on Twitter and other social platforms, were also taken by NASA and the International Space Station (ISS) and quite remarkably if I do say so, they aren't of Hurricane Patricia but of Typhoon Maysak. Maysak also got to be a Category 5 tropical cyclone at one period of its life and was also one of the strongest ones in recent years; however, it lost its power right before making landfall in the Philippines.
PRI's current president, Manilo Fabio Beltrones, was also a victim of Twitter's low standards, sharing it as an "impressive" picture of Patricia:
What else ISN'T Hurricane Patricia? This image, which was actually a waterspout in Tampa Bay back in 2014:
The following images are of Patricia, taken by NASA's Scott Kelly from the ISS:
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