Typhoon Season 2013

[INXS]

Thanks virago. Of course, I've been watching this one since Saturday but actually the picture has been quite confused....there is some low pressure just South East of Hainan and the interaction might be interesting...anyway, you can more or less ignore the HKO track for at least until tomorrow IMO!

Yes, a lot more realistic now.



Watch for interaction with the low already in the South China Sea...94W....not so many talking about that yet...

[MovingIn07]

I had no idea!

Neither did I. But I do fear storm surges (which is what this really was) every time a typhoon approaches - living on a boat as we do!

[INXS]

T1 now............

[Watercooler]

T1 now............

When do we get a T3?

[triunfo]

Kind of frightening how frequent the typhoons are hitting SE Asia this summer.

[GwailoGuru]

It doesnt look like a T1 outside at all, beautiful day

[Watercooler]

Kind of frightening how frequent the typhoons are hitting SE Asia this summer.

Yes, the Northwestern Pacific basin (where we are-East and South East Asia) is the most active tropical cyclone basin in the world (i.e. on average has the most storms), accounting for a third of all tropical cyclones in the world, followed by the Northeastern Pacific (the area off southern Mexico):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic..._Pacific_Ocean

In fact, the most intense tropical cyclone on record happened in the Northwest Pacific, with Typhoon Tip in 1979:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_tip

[Azuremain]

When do we get a T3?

never?

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[jonathan.lo]

Were not people talking about some kind of invisible typhoon force field over Hong Kong? Check out this image...

http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/currwx/tc_gis_e.htm

[Watercooler]

never?

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Maybe not for this one, but we don't know about future storms...