Typhoon Season 2013

[Watercooler]

The eye and the outer rainbands seem to have shrank somewhat from the latest sat image, I wonder if the typhoon is undergoing a eyewall replacement cycle?

[Azuremain]

How is a typhoon most devestating? A direct hit or is very close good enough? Does such a super typhoon like now even need to come very close?

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[virago]

Still fail to see what's perfect about a storm that causes destruction and carnage.

Just because it swirls around making a pretty pattern doesn't make it beautiful.

[INXS]

Still fail to see what's perfect about a storm that causes destruction and carnage.

Just because it swirls around making a pretty pattern doesn't make it beautiful.

How you feel about the storm will have absolutely no impact on the path it will take. The fact that it wall cause carnage and destruction is irrelevant.

[Watercooler]

Still fail to see what's perfect about a storm that causes destruction and carnage.

Just because it swirls around making a pretty pattern doesn't make it beautiful.

Yeah maybe "beautiful" isn't the best word to describe the storm. That being said, I do understand what INXS and the others were using this term. They found the symmetrical eye (probably with the stadium effect in the eye) very impressive so they use beautiful to describe it. They are in awe of such storms, but that doesn't mean they want to see the carnage and destruction that such hugely powerful storms can cause.

[Watercooler]

How you feel about the storm will have absolutely no impact on the path it will take. The fact that it wall cause carnage and destruction is irrelevant.

I have to disagree with you there, if you happen to be in the storm path, carnage and destruction will be very relevant. Maybe it's not what you meant, but by saying that, you give the impression you are callous and indifferent to the suffering that these storms can cause.

[Elegiaque]

I'm in Taiwan at the moment and all is calm so far...slightly disappointed ;-)

Calm before the storm -- also one of the beautiful things!

[Elegiaque]

Yeah maybe "beautiful" isn't the best word to describe the storm. That being said, I do understand what INXS and the others were using this term. They found the symmetrical eye (probably with the stadium effect in the eye) very impressive so they use beautiful to describe it. They are in awe of such storms, but that doesn't mean they want to see the carnage and destruction that such hugely powerful storms can cause.

No, to me, storms and nature's power is beautiful. Beautiful is one of the most subjective terms though...
I love seeing how powerful nature is -- whether it's whole areas altered by landslides. Massive clouds building in the sky. Or water pressured into a gorge. Or a "minor" water-in-the-bathtub wobbling effect that happens on the scale of an ocean. I love that nature can scare me so much and that I am actually controlled to respect it.
Growing up in the mid-west US, we'd get amazing storms that would come through, and it was a great pleasure to sit on the porch and watch them on the horizon as the sun set. I also saw some amazing similar sunsets in the Philippines thanks to the storms on the horizon. These storms were truly beautiful in a purely aesthetic sense.

[Watercooler]

No, to me, storms and nature's power is beautiful. Beautiful is one of the most subjective terms though...
I love seeing how powerful nature is -- whether it's whole areas altered by landslides. Massive clouds building in the sky. Or water pressured into a gorge. Or a "minor" water-in-the-bathtub wobbling effect that happens on the scale of an ocean. I love that nature can scare me so much and that I am actually controlled to respect it.
Growing up in the mid-west US, we'd get amazing storms that would come through, and it was a great pleasure to sit on the porch and watch them on the horizon as the sun set. I also saw some amazing similar sunsets in the Philippines thanks to the storms on the horizon. These storms were truly beautiful in a purely aesthetic sense.

Subjective term...you are right on that one. Although by saying that you can give other people the idea that you welcome destruction, death and injuries these storms can cause.

[HowardCoombs]

Still fail to see what's perfect about a storm that causes destruction and carnage.
Just because it swirls around making a pretty pattern doesn't make it beautiful.

Perfect storms are beautiful like Nazi WW2 uniforms are beautiful. You have to look at their asthetics outside of the destruction they are associated with.