Typhoon Ioke

[billvon 3,132]

Has anyone been following this typhoon? Winds are already hitting 190mph, which ties it for the record. Any higher and we'd have a new record. (Apparently there was a claim that Typhoon Nancy hit 215mph, but that number is disputed.) It will remain a cat-5 typhoon for the next three days. Good thing there's not much out there (central pacific.)

[billvon 3,132]

Make that 195mph. New record excluding Nancy.

http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200601.html

[vortexring 0]

nah - your wrong - 196mph it was.

http://www.itwasactually196mphalright?.com/argumentsrus.html

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

[billvon 3,132]

Yeah, but Clinton got a blowjob!

[PhreeZone 20]

50 foot waves, 195mph winds... Flordia better be happy they are not getting hit with that. Its also now a Super Typhoon.

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

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[vortexring 0]

Nah - it was his cigar:

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

[Shawndiver 0]

All Wake Island personnel were airlifted to Hawaii.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/08/29/wake.island.evac.ap/index.html

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[davedlg 0]

Anyone else see the pictures of the people evaduating the island and think the same thing I did?...

[livendive 8]

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Anyone else see the pictures of the people evaduating the island and think the same thing I did?...

Green light means go?

Blues,
Dave

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(drink Mountain Dew)

[vortexring 0]

Good exit off the ramp?

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

[lawrocket 3]

[Reply]Has anyone been following this typhoon? Winds are already hitting 190mph, which ties it for the record.

[normiss 905]

The metric system.

[masterblaster72 0]

normiss

The metric system.

I think it's AGW alarmists.

Be humble, ask questions, listen, learn, follow the golden rule, talk when necessary, and know when to shut the fuck up.

[lawrocket 3]

masterblaster72

***The metric system.

I think it's AGW alarmists.

I am wondering why the hell we are hearing about the "worst storm of all time" and such matters. The present storm press is sounding EXACTLY like Ioke. The 195 mph magic number.

Why is it that people are saying the Philippines is being hit with 195 mph winds? It isn't. It's getting hit with Cat 1 or Cat 2 winds. Looking in the past, I see the same thing was said about Ioke. Comparing this to katrina and Sandy is kinda ridiculous, as well, seeing as how North Pacific Typhoons are usually more frequent and stronger than Atlantic Hurricanes. Typhoon Tip back in 1979? It dwarfed Sandy in size. Check out the atmospheric pressures in the eyes.

Reports are now those of "mass disruption" instead of "devastation." We see reports of worst storm ever - reliable records of typhoon intensity don't go back more than a few decades.

Finally - dvorak. The storm's intensity is being estimated by the Dvorak method. Which is pretty useful in many respects but - there isn't the raw data available. Dvorak really started coming into its own in the 1980s. And without satellite photos it wasn't possible. So we can't really even go back to the 1950s for some history on it.

It's a big storm. A strong storm. But this is another example of inflammation coupled with either a really short memory of other stronger storms or an eraser of the limits of history.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[JerryBaumchen 1,471]

Hi rocket,

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another example of inflammation

Well, we have had more than one 'Trial of the Century.'



JerryBaumchen

[normiss 905]

Maybe it's in an effort to promote more donations of support afterwards?
Just wondering.

[lawrocket 3]

JerryBaumchen

Hi rocket,

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another example of inflammation

Well, we have had more than one 'Trial of the Century.'



JerryBaumchen

Indeed. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Press is seeing this stuff. And people like Jeff masters are claiming this is the most powerful landfalling storm "in world history.". [Url]http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/super-typhoon-haiyan-finishes-pounding-the-philippines-headed-for-vie[/url]

To his credit, Masters does write, "Haiyan's winds were estimated using only satellite images, making its intensity estimate of lower confidence." But this is only after he made the initial claims.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[lawrocket 3]

All right. We're getting in some observational measurements. Top measured one-minute sustained windspeed looks like 147 mph. Gusts to 170. A big, bad sucker.

There are thousands dead. Some think upwards of 10k dead just in Tacloban. This is awful stuff.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[regulator 0]

My brother lives in northern part of Mindanao Island.

When I checked the distance (how the crow flies because you can't get into a car and actually drive between the islands) from Ormoc, Philippines to Balingasag, Philippines it is approximately 300 miles. So they definitely sustained some high winds and lots of rain, but does not appear they were close enough to get the full impact of Super Typhoon Haiyan.

[winsor 236]

lawrocket

All right. We're getting in some observational measurements. Top measured one-minute sustained windspeed looks like 147 mph. Gusts to 170. A big, bad sucker.

There are thousands dead. Some think upwards of 10k dead just in Tacloban. This is awful stuff.

Highest winds I saw cited were 199 mph sustained, gusting to 235.

In some areas there was 80% destruction of man made structures.

Seriously bad juju.