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  1. gallopinggertie
    Despite weakening to Cat 1 intensity before landfall, Krathon seems to have brought impressively strong winds to Kaohsiung. There are some videos on r/taiwan of a convenience storm whose entrance got blasted in by a huge gust, as a worker tried to hold the door in. But one visitor wrote the following comment on that subreddit, which seems encouraging: “I’m an American tourist who happened to be in Kaohsiung during the typhoon. It’s clear that this is the worst typhoon this city has seen in years, since many older trees were uprooted. I am impressed by how well Taiwan responds to and prepares for these storms! I went outside as soon as I thought it was safe today, and there were already workers cleaning up the tree damage. Just as importantly, the damage seemed to be limited to trees and signs. The buildings seemed unscathed by the storm, despite this apparently being the worst Kaohsiung has experienced in a while, which means they were designed very well.”
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    Maybe there should be a second tier of flash flood watch for especially dangerous/unusual events.
  3. gallopinggertie
    That’s probably true, but I meant as the numbers stand at this moment.
  4. gallopinggertie
    Though if Sandy counts, that would be second place and Helene would be fourth.
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    I reviewed the tracks of all the typhoons on Wikipedia’s category “typhoons in Taiwan”—it’s something like 80 typhoons in total. The only one that made landfall on Taiwan’s west coast was Wayne in 1986, but that was just at minimal Cat 1 intensity. So, if Krathon does in fact make this right hook and hit Kaohsiung as a 125-mph typhoon, it would be quite unusual indeed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Wayne_(1986)
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    Hopefully the track changes. krathon is already a powerful and large typhoon.
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    Continuing this season’s trend of typhoons threatening major cities, Typhoon Krathon (what a name!) is forecast to strike Kaohsiung, Taiwan as a Cat 3-equivalent. Kaohsiung is a major city with nearly 3 million inhabitants. I would guess that a direct hit is rare there because of its position on the southwest coast of Taiwan. The predicted landfall is still a couple days a way, though, so plenty of time for the track to change.
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    It must be pretty unusual for the highest recorded gust to be so far inland.
  9. gallopinggertie
    61 gust to 88 at this station near Valdosta: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=1771W&hours=72
  10. gallopinggertie
    Extreme wind warning just added for a few counties in southern Georgia, including Valdosta.
  11. gallopinggertie
    Can someone shed some light on how such a quickly-moving storm is able to RI? I always heard that fast forward motion inhibits intensification. But obviously that’s not always true.
  12. gallopinggertie
    Just 17 for Wilma?
  13. gallopinggertie
    Also some 60 mph gusts at a couple Tampa-area airport stations.
  14. gallopinggertie
    NHC has Helene maintaining Cat 2 strength well into southern Georgia.
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    Looks like a bad flooding situation for the coasts of Oaxaca and Guerrero. John has barely moved since it made landfall.
  16. gallopinggertie
    Should be a bad hit for the town of Marquelia (population just 14,000) which it looks like John will travel directly over. Hopefully damage is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the town is a couple miles inland.
  17. gallopinggertie
    Is John’s windfield actually as small as it’s shown by the NHC? I can barely make out the hurricane-force winds here. I guess the system’s inner core does look somewhat small on satellite.
  18. gallopinggertie
    Meanwhile, Bebinca was apparently the strongest typhoon to make landfall over Shanghai (though still just a Cat-1 equivalent) since 1949.
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    I should clarify that the RSMCs in the Pacific did stop issuing advisories on Yagi when the remnants crossed into Myanmar. Though the surface low never dissipated. So technically, the TC did lose TC classification. But the low reorganized into a deep depression over the NIO and Ganges River delta region. I wonder if that was due to the brown ocean effect…this is near the end of the monsoon season in Bangladesh so the land is probably quite waterlogged by now.
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    I really hope this is one of those situations where the number of missing people gets revised downward by a lot. That is a crazy graphic. Yagi still looks like a tropical storm to my untrained eye.
  21. gallopinggertie
    Yagi ended up causing horrible flooding in Myanmar. Hundreds of deaths were reported there, as well as in Vietnam. So far it’s the sixth-costliest typhoon on record, with $14 billion in damages, mostly in China.
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    Bebinca just made landfall in Shanghai as a marginal 65-kt typhoon.
  23. gallopinggertie
    Bebinca just made landfall in Shanghai as a marginal 65-kt typhoon.
  24. gallopinggertie
    Yagi ended up causing horrible flooding in Myanmar. Hundreds of deaths were reported there, as well as in Vietnam. So far it’s the sixth-costliest typhoon on record, with $14 billion in damages, mostly in China.
  25. gallopinggertie
    Another strong typhoon is predicted to hit China in a few days, this time further north, near Shanghai.
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