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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho's watching Super typhoon Lan
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/western-pacific/2017/super-typhoon-lan]
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Who's watching Super typhoon Lan (Original Post)
malaise
Oct 2017
OP
Super Typhoon is actually the standard name for major storms in the western pacific.
OliverQ
Oct 2017
#12
LeftInTX
(25,556 posts)1. Yikes!!!! What an eye!
msongs
(67,443 posts)2. grandma what a big eye you have! nt
My first thought
Leith
(7,813 posts)3. Holy Shit
That's what heading for Japan?
Check it out on Ventusky:
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=22.0;141.9;4&l=wind-950hpa&t=20171021/03
It's a monster.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)4. Good monitoring site here:
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
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
malaise
(269,175 posts)8. Thanks
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)5. Very unusual eye formation!
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)6. Eye wall collapse. They go through cycles.
bluepen
(620 posts)7. I hope I never hear a meteorologist put "super" in front of a storm name
again. Its 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.
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.
Thats why I cited Sandy but my fault for not being clearer.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)10. BREAKING: republicans still lying to Americans about climate change
malaise
(269,175 posts)11. It seems to me that ReTHUGs not lying about anything
would be BREAKING NEWS