[Vision2020] Category Five 160 mph Super Typhoon Now Hitting Phillipines

[Ted Moffett]

All:

Some think that the slow hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this year is
an indicator that global warming is not increasing storm intensity or
number, but the Pacific season this year suggests otherwise.

While the predictions from NOAA of an above average hurricane season in the
Atlantic Basin have been down graded, with not one major hurricane hitting
the US this season so far, the Pacific has seen a large number of typhoons
and hurricanes, and monster super typhoons.  Two of the most intense were
Super Typhoon Saomai, which was the worst super typhoon to hit China in
fifty years, and Hurricane/Super Typhoon Ioke (it formed in the East Pacific
as a Cat. Five where these storms are called "hurricanes," and sustained
long enough to pass into the West Pacific, also as a Cat. 5, becoming
a "typhoon," eventually circling around causing beach erosion along the
Western Alaskan shore), a record setting hurricane/typhoon that, when
measured for its total energy given its strength, size and duration, was a
massively powerful storm, though it only menaced some islands in the
Pacific, Wake Island among them, which was totally evacuated for the first
time in years.

Now we have Super Typhoon Cimaron hitting the Phillipines as I write, with
sustained winds of 160 mph.

Link to info on Cimaron:

http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/warnings/wp2206sa.gif

And links to info on the Pacific 2006 Hurricane/Typhoon season:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_hurricane_season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Pacific_typhoon_season

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Ted Moffett
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