[Vision2020] Super Typhoon Lupit: 150 mph: Heading for Storm Battered Phillipines

[Ted Moffett]

Naval Oceanography Portal, Joint Typhoon Warning Center info on Lupit:

http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/warnings/wp2209.gif

http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/warnings/wp2209web.txt

Discussion on Jeff Masters' Wunderblog:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1353

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200922_5day.htm?MR=1

*Typhoon Lupit a potential major catastrophe for the Philippines*
*
*Category 4 Super Typhoon
Lupit<http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200922_5day.htm>is
stalled out over the Philippine Sea east of northern Luzon Island in
the
Philippines, but is expected to resume a westerly track towards the
Philippines on Monday. Depending upon whether the storm makes landfall in
northern Luzon or not, Lupit (the Filipino word for cruel) has the potential
to live up to its name if it makes landfall as a major typhoon on Thursday,
as currently forecast. A week ago, Super Typhoon
Parma<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Parma_%282009%29>crossed
over the northern Philippines three times, dumping over twenty
inches of rain in many locations. Over 300 people died in the resulting
flash floods and landslides. A visit by Typhoon Lupit would bring another
12+ inches of rain to the already-soaked soils of the region, creating a
major catastrophe. However, there is hope that storm's current slow and
erratic movement will carry Lupit far enough north that the typhoon will
miss the Philippines.

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