Typhoon Jelawat

Wolfe_IRE

On September 27, 2012, Jelawat was located northeast of the Philippines, continuing a northward trip over the western Pacific Ocean. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. Sporting a distinct eye, the storm spanned hundreds of kilometers, some of its clouds extending over the Philippines and Taiwan.


On September 27, the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that Jelawat was located about 410 nautical miles (760 kilometers) south-southwest of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 135 knots (250 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 165 knots (305 kilometers per hour). The JTWC projected storm track showed Jelawat, which had been moving northwest, changing course and heading toward the northeast around September 27. The storm was expected to pass over Japan in the coming days.

ian_m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qXYkLUKso4

M.T. Cranium

The typhoon then moved rapidly northeast and tracked north of Tokyo about two days ago, became extratropical east of Hokkaido, and is now a remnant low of about 980 mbs east of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It appears headed for western Alaska and weak remnants will then flow over the top of a large ridge over my location in western Canada so its final act may be to push some arctic air off the top of said ridge towards central Canada in about a week. If you see strong low pressure coming off eastern North America into the Atlantic in about two weeks, that could be the end result of Jelawat's energy.