Super Typhoon Haiyan

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Super Typhoon Haiyan: potentially the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record with the lowest ever recorded barometric pressure on Earth!

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2573

"But at least one agency---NOAA’s Satellite Service Division, estimated at one point before landfall Thursday, that Haiyan may have produced an 858 mb. (25.31”) central pressure which, if verified, would eclipse every record on the planet for the lowest pressure in a storm."

http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/201...lone-on-record/
 
Originally Posted By: dparm
Weather Underground reported winds peaking at 235mph, which is literally off the scale. Scary.

We've only had 2 storms that had high enough wind to get a rain "whiteout" and that was with a few minutes of 60-70mph gusts.
Sustained 150mph+... I can't really imagine it.
 
Originally Posted By: dparm
Weather Underground reported winds peaking at 235mph, which is literally off the scale. Scary.


That's unbelievable! That's Tornado territory. Very scary for everyone in its path.
 
I was on Okinawa in the early 1960s and had a typhoon of 225MPH winds and I thought that was bad, not much you can do but keep your head down and pray.

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