I hope they are right and the HKO are wrong
905 hPa and falling...holy smoke!
To put it in perspective, #NIDA's lowest recorded pressure was 975 hPa
You can work on 1000 hPa being 'normal', a bit like zero degrees centigrade...
Normal range would be something like 980 hPa - 1030 hPa...
...when #NIDA passed Hong Kong I recorded 993.5 hPa.
Haiyan's lowest pressure was 895 hPa (Some experts argue that it should have been 888 hPa) (the world record stands at 870 hPa) and I think Haiyan was around 950 hPa when it hit Tacloban. Remember Tacloban? Even the most conservative estimates put the death toll at 5000 and it was the storm surge...the storm surge caused by the low pressure that made it so deadly.
I feel quite sick right now thinking about Batanes right now in much the same way I did watching Haiyan (Yolande) bear down on Tacloban...
Yes, but it is monsoon time so hard to tell . 8 provinces on warning.
Batanes always gets hit, tend to not include them (but don't tell the Chinese that or they will claim them). Population just 17,000. I always think of them as some remote Scottish islands and strangely there are artifacts there which look Viking.
Edit: Hadn't seen it was quite so severe, poor bastards. I hope they have got some decent shelters.
Now a category 5 and the tracks have edged nearer HK. This could be very nasty. Sustained winds of 195 kmph with gusts of 230 kmph..
tin hei bat chi yu kei ~ daan yiu zau zung yiu fei~
A little riddle just for fun. Someone here must know the meaning.