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Full Version: Super Typhoon choi wan 160mph gust to 195mph!!!
QUOTE (Hurricaneff @ Sep 15 2009, 07:16 PM) 
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200915.html
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/largec.html?ar...00&mode=UTC
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/largec.html?ar...00&mode=UTC
At least Bill and Fred had a bit of that look. Every other storm in the Atlantic looks like a brief shower next to that thing.
What a beautiful storm!!
What a beautiful storm!!
The global shot is a great one in that it shows the picture perfect calm atmosphere a very strong Cat4/5 type of storm needs to achieve that level of power. Compare that atmospheric condition to the turbulence in the Atlantic we've seen all season which almost completely shut down the Cape Verde season and whisked any little development off Africa well east of the US.
SST's very warm in it's locale. Did it hit some small islands?
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/mtsat/twpac/loop-ir4.html
The eye is large and remarkable.
The global shot is a great one in that it shows the picture perfect calm atmosphere a very strong Cat4/5 type of storm needs to achieve that level of power. Compare that atmospheric condition to the turbulence in the Atlantic we've seen all season which almost completely shut down the Cape Verde season and whisked any little development off Africa well east of the US.
SST's very warm in it's locale. Did it hit some small islands?
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/mtsat/twpac/loop-ir4.html
The eye is large and remarkable.
Have heard any news of it hiting any land yet
QUOTE (Hurricaneff @ Sep 16 2009, 01:16 PM)
Have heard any news of it hiting any land yet
On the shot I put up it looks to be just west of a small chain. Probably uninhabited. The storm looks like Katrina.
QUOTE (icehater @ Sep 16 2009, 12:53 PM)
What a beautiful storm!!
The global shot is a great one in that it shows the picture perfect calm atmosphere a very strong Cat4/5 type of storm needs to achieve that level of power. Compare that atmospheric condition to the turbulence in the Atlantic we've seen all season which almost completely shut down the Cape Verde season and whisked any little development off Africa well east of the US.
SST's very warm in it's locale. Did it hit some small islands?
The eye is large and remarkable.
The global shot is a great one in that it shows the picture perfect calm atmosphere a very strong Cat4/5 type of storm needs to achieve that level of power. Compare that atmospheric condition to the turbulence in the Atlantic we've seen all season which almost completely shut down the Cape Verde season and whisked any little development off Africa well east of the US.
SST's very warm in it's locale. Did it hit some small islands?
The eye is large and remarkable.
Pressure is down to near 880mb!!!
QUOTE (Hurricaneff @ Sep 16 2009, 01:16 PM)
Have heard any news of it hiting any land yet
Have not
Tokyo is in the cone,but looks like it will be way east of them.Gonna have some nasty wave action along the east coast of Japan
Now that is what I call a hurricane. Not like ones named so far this year minus Bill of course.
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