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Typhoon Sanba
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14-09-2012 11:14am#1In the Pacific, Sanba is currently a Super Typhoon (Cat.5), with winds of 170 mph gusting to 200 mph, and it's on a course that could see it hitting Okinawa as a Cat.4, then weakening to a Cat.2 as it hits Korea.
Okinawa has already had a close shave this year, when Typhoon Bolaven bounced over and spared the islands its worst winds, but Sanba may hit there around Saturday night. There are already warnings for expected flooding in Korea before Sanba arrives there later.
Death has this much to be said for it:
You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
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Reading the Wunderground blog, the "good news" is that Sanba has dropped to "just" a Cat.3 just before Okinawa. It was the strongest tropical cyclone so far this year, with sustained winds of 175MPH for several hours.
NASA has a beautiful hi-res image of it here. Here's the eye close-up:
:cool:Death has this much to be said for it:
You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you—free.— Kingsley Amis
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Here is another one - Typhoon Jelawat. A very distinct eye in this pic from earlier today.
On September 25, 2012, Jelawat continued its northwestward trip over the western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that Jelawat was located about 385 nautical miles (715 kilometers) east-northeast of Manila in the Philippines. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 knots (260 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 170 knots (315 kilometers per hour).
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on September 25. Compared to the previous day, the storm was still located of the Philippines, but had moved toward the north-northwest. Storm clouds stretched over part of the island chain. Taipei Times reported that the Taiwan weather bureau had warned that Jelawat would pass near Taiwan September 27–28. Combined with regional monsoon weather patterns, the storm had the potential to bring heavy rains. Operators of shipping vessels were waiting for the storm, and for further alerts on ocean conditions. The JTWC projected storm track showed the storm moving toward the north-northwest, to the same latitude as Taiwan, then veering toward the northeast.0
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