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Super Typhoon Haiyan - Phillippines

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    #2
    eskimocat
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    Funny was expecting there to be a thread pages and pages long about this Typhoon. Its absolutely massive, and if the headlines are anything to go by, it could set records. They are expecting a sustained wind speed of 313km/h ! that is just simply jaw dropping! Even the look of the thing on the radar is like something out of a bad film.

    http://wxug.us/19ikt

    You can see the severity of this system on the radar in the link above.
    While some people have been evacuated, others remain. My thoughts are with them and all their families. Be safe.


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    #3
    eskimocat
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaOugwlgk9U


    There she is! This is how she tracked so far...


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    #4
    cherryghost
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    Apparently it's even broken measure records.

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    One of the strongest storms ever witnessed is just hours away from landfall.
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    Super Typhoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda in the Philippines) has officially maxed out the Dvorak scale, which is used to measure strong strength using satellites. That means Haiyan is approaching the theoretical maximum intensity for any storm, anywhere. From the latest NOAA bulletin:
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    DVORAK TECHNIQUE MAKES NO ALLOWANCE FOR AN EYE EMBEDDED SO DEEPLY IN CLOUD TOPS AS COLD [AS THIS]
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    Put another way, the most commonly used satellite-based intensity scale just wasn’t designed to handle a storm this strong. Within the last hour, one real-time estimate of the storm’s intensity has actually ticked slightly above the maximum to 8.1 on an 8.0 scale. This meteorologist, for one, has never seen that before.

    And here it is dropping off the scale:
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    haiyan-rainfall-nov7.png?w=640&h=467

    Pressure is still dropping on this baby as we speak. Just at 883 at the moment.


    Niiiiiice
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    #5
    eskimocat
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    The eye is so large, normally you might get a little black dot, but that is a circle! Wonder what size the eye is measuring. They are warning people about not going out in the calm of the storm as the winds can reverse back, and the speed of the reverse could be extremely fast.


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    #6
    vicwatson
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    300 km/h winds expected

    200mm rain

    Bloody eck !

    Category 5

    Batten down the hatches


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    #7
    cherryghost
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    12 hour evolution:

    11pm GMT yesterday
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    11am this morning
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    #8
    tylercollins
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057078249


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    #9
    maquiladora
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    Incredible cyclone. May not see another as powerful in our lifetime. Broke the Dvorak scale.

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    #10
    maquiladora
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    Satellite loops show that Haiyan weakened only slightly, if at all, in the two hours after JTWC’s advisory, so the super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph. This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic's Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds.

    http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2573


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    #11
    drunkmonkey
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    The GMA News network over there is posting video updates on youtube from the regions every few minutes:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/gmanews/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd
    or
    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/video?ref=breadcrumbs

    Just looks a little windy.


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    mchammer22
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    What is the path of Haiyan after the Philippines? Is it likely to hit Vietnam??


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    #13
    Mr Cumulonimbus
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    At 2100Z.

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    #14
    Stinicker
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    I was in the Philippines this summer and this will absolutely devastate the country and to top it all off this the most powerful storm in World History is ploughing straight through a region already devastated by a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake which struck 3 weeks ago in the Visayas. Some of the architectural sights I photographed there this summer were flattened to the ground and now they get pummeled by this. I hope they can get to shelter but I would not be surprised if we hear of deaths in the tens of thousands due to this.

    Similarly in 1991 Mount Pinatubo erupted in what was the biggest global volcanic eruption since Krakatoa and the same day a super typhoon swept in from the Pacific and a huge corner of Luzon was totally devastated, the Americans fled their Clark and Subic military bases which were flattened by the lahar and ash and destroyed the economy so heavily dependent on them.

    The Philippines is mega-diverse country and truely a wonder of nature, its people despite grinding poverty are among the nicest you could find on earth. This typhoon will do untold damage to their already fledgling nation of 100 million people. May god help them all.


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    #15
    Mr Cumulonimbus
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    Image at 0Z. Daytime there now. Conditions must be at their worst at this stage.

    279347.jpg


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    #16
    martic
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    This video was posted on a friends facebook page, nasty looking stuff
    http://instagram.com/p/gbow7rKWz7/


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    #17
    zenno
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    That is a monster :eek:


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    #18
    cherryghost
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    This typhoon is the TWENTY-FIFTH typhoon to hit the Philippines this year


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    #19
    up for anything
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    I can't believe how little coverage Yolanda is getting on the tv news channels that I have... well I can, because it's the East. Nothing in the last 30 minutes on any of them that I can see. It's ludicrous compared to the 24/7 coverage that Sandy got.

    ETA: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/07/super-typhoon-haiyan-slams-phi.html

    Just come on Sky news. I take it back.


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    #20
    bnt
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    Based on wind speed estimates, Wunderground are calling this the most powerful storm to ever make landfall - more powerful than Hurricane Camille (1969). There have been stronger typhoons out at sea, but none of those hit land. There's very little news coming out of the worst-affected areas at the moment.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #21
    Hugo_Whoriskey
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    mchammer22 wrote: »
    What is the path of Haiyan after the Philippines? Is it likely to hit Vietnam??

    From The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/08/typhoon-haiyan-batters-philippines

    "Haiyan is expected to lessen by Saturday as it moves towards the South China Sea, where Vietnam, Laos and China are in its potential path."

    Another article from there states:

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/07/philippines-worst-typhoon-haiyan

    "The state weather bureau said Haiyan was expected to pass over the Philippines late on Saturday and then move into the South China Sea, where it could become even stronger and threaten Vietnam or China."

    An article last night which is now edited/gone said it would likely threaten Vietnam/Laos and would likely be in their top 5 natural disasters.


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    #22
    Larbre34
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    The Philippines have had desperate fortunes with natural disasters over the years, how can any country develop with once a decade devastation?

    380 kph (235 mph) gusts are frankly inconceivable. They sound more like something you hear reported from planetary research of Venus or the likes.


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    #23
    RobertKK
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    CNN have done a great job on this super RTyphoon, they have been warning about it for several days saying it would be a major news maker.
    Really horrific stuff for the people there.
    It is things like this that make us appreciate our own weather and even when it is at it's most extreme here, we are usually doing very well.

    A weather record breaking day: 08/11/2013.


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    Elmer Blooker
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    cherryghost wrote: »
    This typhoon is the TWENTY-FIFTH typhoon to hit the Philippines this year
    Is there any explanation or even connection between the extraordinarily quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic compared with what's happening in the Pacific?
    I know the formation of hurricanes depends on sea surface temperatures.


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    #25
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    Heart goes out for people around Cebu and Bohol.. My friend there lost a friend in the earthquake and now one of the biggest storms ever a few weeks later.

    I'm in Hanoi so will just have a very very wet start to next week.


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    #26
    Faustino
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    Very quiet thread given how huge the system is?


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    #27
    fits
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    Don't know how to embed this but its an incredible satellite image from EUMETSAT

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/eumetsat/10726056545/


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    #28
    fits
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    Faustino wrote: »
    Very quiet thread given how huge the system is?

    I think the storm is out at sea again and it is nighttime in the Philippines. Not much else will come in before sunrise there in 2 hours time.


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    #29
    beatrice33
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    It is so strange... all the talk about being the biggest storm of the century and no news anywhere... not even a decent weather boardsie thread O_o


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    #30
    DOCARCH
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    beatrice33 wrote: »
    It is so strange... all the talk about being the biggest storm of the century and no news anywhere... not even a decent weather boardsie thread O_o

    In think it's just purely as a result of a lack of information, rather than a lack of interest.


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    #31
    Stinicker
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    beatrice33 wrote: »
    It is so strange... all the talk about being the biggest storm of the century and no news anywhere... not even a decent weather boardsie thread O_o

    It was the second news article on the RTÉ 6.01 news and CNN are running with the story all day. Sky News have given it very little airtime though. CNN is the best place for coverage on this.


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