Tropical Cyclone Thread

For the first time in recorded history, all 7 tropical cyclone basins worldwide have produced at least one Category 5 storms in the same year.

Global warming and Climate change is 100% Legit ladies and gentlemen.

Looks like the Lee hype train got derailed because it encountered a strong wind shear and has lost his Cat 5 status and it’s eye. New forecast says he ain’t gonna come back to that strength anymore.

Super Typhoon Bolaven just tied last May’s Super Typhoon Mawar as the strongest storm in the world this year.

We need Hurricane Hunters here in the West Pacific or we will still remain underestimating the true strength of our Typhoons out here…

Based on calculations of some meteorologists, this one should be already below 900 mbar and a 190 MPH wind speed.

10 years ago, approximately 4:40 AM (Philippine Time), the monster typhoon Haiyan makes it’s first landfall in Guiuan, Eastern Samar as a 190 MPH behemoth which became the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in history.

Along it’s path, the 2 million+ population of Tacloban City. The storm left unprecedented amount of deaths and damages in the whole region of Visayas, with Tacloban City in Leyte being the most devastated. Over 6,300 died in the Philippines with most of the deaths coming in Tacloban City alone.

Everyone had already prepared and anticipated the arrival of the monster storm 5 days prior, BUT… They did not know and didn’t realise what kind of a storm they were facing because they were used to enduring typhoons yearly, but not on this level. They were anticipating the damage coming from the winds and at the coastlines, storm surge… They also did not realise that the storm surge will flatten and drown literally the entire city of Tacloban itself. The storm surge actually was the one that dealt most of the deaths and devastation than the wind itself.