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Who's watching Super typhoon Lan (Original Post) malaise Oct 2017 OP
Yikes!!!! What an eye! LeftInTX Oct 2017 #1
grandma what a big eye you have! nt msongs Oct 2017 #2
Ha malaise Oct 2017 #9
Holy Shit Leith Oct 2017 #3
Good monitoring site here: KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #4
Thanks malaise Oct 2017 #8
Very unusual eye formation! greytdemocrat Oct 2017 #5
Eye wall collapse. They go through cycles. Lochloosa Oct 2017 #6
I hope I never hear a meteorologist put "super" in front of a storm name bluepen Oct 2017 #7
Super Typhoon is actually the standard name for major storms in the western pacific. OliverQ Oct 2017 #12
Right, I just mean storms here in the US where it is not standard. bluepen Oct 2017 #13
BREAKING: republicans still lying to Americans about climate change Achilleaze Oct 2017 #10
It seems to me that ReTHUGs not lying about anything malaise Oct 2017 #11

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
4. Good monitoring site here:
Fri Oct 20, 2017, 10:56 PM
Oct 2017
Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC): http://www.usno.navy.mil/JTWC/

Click on "TC Warning Graphic" for tracking and "Multispectral Satellite Imagery" for satellite view. That is one hell of an eye!

Index:
(snip)
Super Typhoon 25W (Lan) Warning #23
Issued at 21/0300Z

TC Warning Text
TC Warning Graphic
Prognostic Reasoning
JMV 3.0 Data
Google Earth Overlay
Multispectral Satellite Imagery
Satellite Fix Bulletin

bluepen

(620 posts)
7. I hope I never hear a meteorologist put "super" in front of a storm name
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 01:01 AM
Oct 2017

again. It’s always unscientific, and sometimes ridiculous (Sandy).

Might as well go with "Frankenstorm."

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
12. Super Typhoon is actually the standard name for major storms in the western pacific.
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 07:58 AM
Oct 2017

It's their version of Major Hurricane.

bluepen

(620 posts)
13. Right, I just mean storms here in the US where it is not standard.
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 08:20 AM
Oct 2017

That’s why I cited Sandy but my fault for not being clearer.

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