PressureDrop2017

On 9/15/2018 at 2:19 AM, the ghost of leroy said:

Lol

Now do you believe it, Leroy ? 

So pompous, laughing at death and devastation 

Partly true ... the top two turn out to be still photos from Haiyan which were included in a Philippine news report about Mangkhut 

The lower two actually are Mangkhut, they are screenshots from videos posted to social media 

Good observation 

There will be plenty of similar images unfortunately

Typhoon Mangkhut, Cat 5 with 160 MPH wind sustained, wind gusts to 185 MPH

Some videos are starting to come in with the devastation, there are some local tornado-like effects in which roofs of buildings are torn off, debris flying hundreds of feet up in the air, cars and trucks lifted and flipped 

This track for Supertyphoon 'Mangkhut' has thus far been accurate. 

Looks like for sure is going to be a direct hit on the northern part of Luzon, Phillipines. And then open ocean for a long way, and becoming a threat to Southeast Asia

On 9/12/2018 at 9:14 PM, Chinook said:

Super Typhoon Mangkhut is now a textbook Category 5 cyclone, and JTWC predicts that it will impact the northern Phillipines (Luzon.)  It might be a pretty close call with landfall

 

 

It looks a like a direct hit at this time and has actually intensified since earlier today. So that ought to be the big tropical storm weather story, not Florence. But this is American Weather so fair enough

https://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/storms/MANGKHUT.html