West Pacific Typhoon Season Thread (Number, Strength, Damages, Ace) (record, rainfall, night)
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I just want to talk about the most severe tropical cyclone activity region, both number and strength too.
*As a person who lives in Taiwan (coastal region of East Asia, near Okinawa), There have been 3 years that no typhoon landing, which is so weird!
[mod note] Thread moved to "Hurricanes" sub-forum. In the North Atlantic Ocean and the East Pacific Ocean, tropical cyclones of a certain intensity are called "Hurricanes". In other parts of the world, they are called "Typhoons" or "Cyclones". They are all the same weather phenomena, but the forum here on City-Data is called "Hurricanes". [/mod note]
Here's an image from Wikipedia. Pretty large image, so I cropped it to just show your area. Image shows 2022 cyclone activity. I'd say you 'guys' dodged a bullet last year. A lot of them. The PI really got hit.
[mod note] Thread moved to "Hurricanes" sub-forum. In the North Atlantic Ocean and the East Pacific Ocean, tropical cyclones of a certain intensity are called "Hurricanes". In other parts of the world, they are called "Typhoons" or "Cyclones". They are all the same weather phenomena, but the forum here on City-Data is called "Hurricanes". [/mod note]
Sorry for the fail post, I know there are all same weather phenomena. Are these kinds of discussions unsuitable for this forum? If there are some rules I violated that will let me lost some rights? Thank you.
On average, this area produces about 25~26 typhoon (at least tropical storms' strength) annually, and we always expect there will be 3~5 typhoons hit Taiwan every year. But since 2019/08/24 there have no typhoon ever landed on. We had already experienced severe drought in 2020 in South-western Taiwan, less than 1500mm rainfall received in that year.
On average, this area produces about 25~26 typhoon (at least tropical storms' strength) annually, and we always expect there will be 3~5 typhoons hit Taiwan every year. But since 2019/08/24 there have no typhoon ever landed on. We had already experienced severe drought in 2020 in South-western Taiwan, less than 1500mm rainfall received in that year.
Looking at previous season maps, it's like storms just drove around Taiwan! Didn't realize they haven't had a landfall in so long. You can get some really intense storms there right before the mountains weaken. I'll sometimes follow James Reynolds' chases that region on social.
Tuesday 23May - Typhoon Mawar now Cat4 with 155mph (250km/h) winds (per JTWC) and just Southeast of Guam where a direct landfall is expected on Wednesday. Latest advisories: https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html (Local Guam time is 14hrs ahead of EDT, so 730amEDT is 930pm Guam local)
Wed 24ay 7aEDT(9p local Guam): Mawar underwent an ERC (Eyewall replacement cycle) Tuesday into Wednesday which temporarily weakened it, it may have ingested some dry air during that time. Northern half of storm on radar was mostly missing compared to the well built South side.
The storm ended up moving North, then finally turned and just clipped Northern tip of the island, will now slowly pull away. Heavy rain and high winds likely persist through the night there (sun just set). Good in that means storm surge much less then originally expected, but bad in that the well built South side crosses the island with intense wind/rain
The storm has mostly left Guam/Rota islands with some very outer rains still affecting the area.
Meanwhile, the storm finished its ERC and is now a near record setting 167mph sustained winds with higher gust Cat5 super typhoon! Glad it didn’t finish the ERC up before reaching by Guam!
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