Ludy51
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.................View attachment 601 Somewhere, sometime...this happened.
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.................View attachment 601 Somewhere, sometime...this happened.
Now that pic is very cool.View attachment 601 Somewhere, sometime...this happened.
View attachment 601 Somewhere, sometime...this happened.
That thing ^^ is about to hit main island of Tonga in about 3 hours, passing roughly 20 miles south, with sustained winds of 200km/h and gusts of 250km/h. It's still intensifying and is expected to become category 5 cyclone.
Hunker down, Tonga. Fingers crossed.
I like this tracker (forecast model):Looks like Tonga got hit pretty bad but only 1 indirect death so far
EDIT: Also here is a link to see the current satellite imagery of the storm:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/09P/09P_floater.html
Pretty cool.Nice, also a big fan of
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/
More Atlantic centered in regards to the home page updates but you can get current info and model runs for all the basins. The guy who runs the site is very knowledgeable.
Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane/Typhoon thoughts on year so far and last year's activity.
Southern Hemisphere as a whole having a below average year in cyclone activity although both are already more active in terms of ACE(Accumulated Cyclone Energy) than the previous year which was very low for the south Indian and south Pacific basins. Only basin last year globally that was active was the Atlantic where things went pretty crazy after a quiet few years due to El Nino. So busy in fact we just got the National Hurricane Center full report on Irma fairly recently and are still waiting on the report on Maria. 3 Major hurricanes impacting land at the rate we saw last year was pretty crazy.
There is some more activity coming in the southern hemisphere. Models showing Cyclone Marcus could grow into an intense one and may give Gita a run for the most intense of the year so far. Currently scraping the north coast of Australia as a modest tropical storm but will go into open waters over the next few days and is projected to strengthen there. Madagascar is also getting hit with a strong tropical storm.
Last cat 3 was Wilma in 2005 but that was a crazy year indeed with Katrina, Rita, and Dennis all also being U.S. major hurricane landfalls.Extremely crazy about those hurricanes since I believe the last cat 3 hit in 2006 then we had a cat 3,4 and 5 in 1 yr.
Marcus did this in Ausie Northern Territory:http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/15S/imagery/rbtop-animated.gif
Cyclone Marcus has intensified over open waters into a formidable hurricane. Good news is that it is not projected to impact land at this intensity.
Weird story indeedMarcus did this in Ausie Northern Territory:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/tropi...deadly-bacteria-authorities-warn_2469258.html
Weird thing.
The one that trashed Samoa and Tonga month or so ago was briefly Cat 5 when passing by southern most islands of FijiFirst cat 5 on Saffir Simpson hurricane scale(has been cat 5 equivalent on Australian scale for a bit now) worldwide since Maria.
Yeah it did hit cat 5 on the Australian scale which measures 10 minute sustained wind speeds. Saffir Simpson scale is the one used by the U.S. and Joint Typhoon Warning Center(JTWC) which measures 1 minute sustained winds which for Gita maxed out at about 145mph. Cat 5 threshold for the Saffir Simpson scale is 156 mph with Marcus hitting around 160 mph right now. Could still end up intensifying furtherThe one that trashed Samoa and Tonga month or so ago was briefly Cat 5 when passing by southern most islands of Fiji