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Super Typhoon’s Landfall Was Most Powerful… Ever

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Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed the central islands of the Phillipines overnight and with sustained winds of nearly 200 mph the ferocious storm fulfilled fears that it would go down as the world’s most powerful tropical storm to make landfall in all recorded history.

According to meteorologist Jeff Masters, citing wind speed estimates from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC, “Haiyan had winds of 190-195 mph at landfall, making it the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic’s Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds.”

Three people have been reported killed by the storm as of Friday morning, but that number is expected to rise. Tens of thousands were evacuated and the World Food Programme has warned that as many as 2.5 million people will need emergency assistance in the storm’s wake.

Giant waves, over fifteen feet in some places, were reporting as Haiyan came ashore but it was the wind strength that was cited as the most destructive aspect of the storm. As communication systems are down in the hardest hit areas, damage reports from those places were so far hard to come by.

As the Guardian reports:

The storm – which is dubbed Yolanda in the Philippines – ripped iron roofs off buildings and threw trees across roads, cutting out power to entire provinces, particularly around the storm’s centre in Eastern Samar province.

“We’ve been hearing from my colleagues in [the city of] Tacloban that they’ve seen galvanised iron sheets flying just like kites,” Mai Zamora, of the charity World Vision, told the BBC. “It’s actually all around the roads now. The roads are flooded in Tacloban.”

Having now passed over the Phillipines, the storm is regaining some lost strength as it crosses the South China Sea and heads for Vietnam, Laos, and mainland China.

Twitter continues to track updates from users around the globe:

And Simon Redfern, a professor of Earth sciences at Cambridge, puts the megastorm in the context of climate change and the broader trend of extreme weather patterns that have been tied to global warming. Writing for the online journal The Conversation, he explains:

The surface water, as well as deeper water, temperatures of the Western Pacific have provided huge amounts of energy for the storm to absorb, fuelling Haiyan’s intensification.

[...] The recent IPCC report on climate change highlighted the risks associated with changes in the patterns and frequency of extreme weather events. While individual storms such as Haiyan cannot be directly attributed to such changes, the statistics of such storms will help build a picture of how climate change is affecting the planet. Climatologists are keen to develop models that provide accurate risk factors for tropical cyclones.

As the planet and particularly the oceans heat, simple physics indicates that the energy stored is likely to increase the intensity and frequency of devastating storms like Haiyan, at great cost to coastal communities.

Super Typhoon Haiyan in pictures:An image from Japan’s meteorological agency MTSAT shows Haiyan over the Leyte Gulf, Philippine Sea.

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Source: Common Dreams


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