2018 WPAC Season

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#761 Postby TyphoonNara » Wed Dec 26, 2018 9:03 pm

Super long-range GFS is seeing a potential typhoon in January.

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#762 Postby euro6208 » Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:27 am

GFS is back and forth on intensity but still has it approaching near Guam...

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#763 Postby euro6208 » Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:54 am

GFS still has it on the latest couple of runs. Albeit weaker.
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#764 Postby euro6208 » Fri Dec 28, 2018 5:59 pm

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#766 Postby doomhaMwx » Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:46 am

As operationally estimated/assessed by the JTWC, six category 5 supertyphoons(STY) developed over the NW Pacific this 2018. This season saw two powerful and devastating category 5 landfalls. STY Mangkhut(26W) made landfall over Luzon in mid September, and about a month later, STY Yutu(31W) hit the Northern Mariana islands as a 155kt storm.

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#767 Postby TyphoonNara » Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:35 am

A summary of tracks in 2018.

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#768 Postby 1900hurricane » Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:22 pm

When using the JTWC operational data and comparing it to the NHC and JTWC data going back to 2004 (when wind radii was first included in best track data), the 2018 Pacific Typhoon Season released the most energy of any tropical cyclone season on record. 27.083 PJ of Track Integrated Kinetic Energy (TIKE) was released over the course of the season. However, between the short period of record and the sketchiness of some of the JTWC wind radii, especially before 2016, this may be somewhat of a hollow record.
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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#769 Postby euro6208 » Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:28 am

Looks like the WMO retired Mangkhut and Rumbia from the naming list.

The strongest storm of the season, Yutu, didn't even get any retirement. It devastated Guam and the NMI.
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#770 Postby Shell Mound » Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:08 pm

euro6208 wrote:Looks like the WMO retired Mangkhut and Rumbia from the naming list.

The strongest storm of the season, Yutu, didn't even get any retirement. It devastated Guam and the NMI.

That's a travesty. The economic impact from Yutu was enormous, however limited the area impacted, and Yutu was the second-strongest tropical cyclone on record to hit U.S. territory, following the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. Unfortunately, the U.S. has treated the Northern Mariana Islands in the same way it treated Puerto Rico, another overseas U.S. territory, after Hurricane Maria (2017). U.S. overseas territories tend to be treated as less important than states, especially mainland states. Sadly, politics tends to supersede the importance of human life and economic recovery in some cases. (Even areas of the Florida Panhandle, for that matter, have not received much aid since last year's Hurricane Michael.)
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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#771 Postby 1900hurricane » Thu Aug 22, 2019 8:24 pm

JTWC still hasn't released the best track data, so I'm still using 2018's preliminary data, but since 1970, 2018 actually has the most August-October ACE and PDI in the WPac outside the Hyper 90s.

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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#772 Postby HurricaneFrances04 » Fri Sep 06, 2019 3:12 pm

I realize the Best Track for 2018 hasn't been released yet, but is there any location where Lat/Lon, wind speed, pressure, and wind field can be found for WPAC storms in 2018 and 2019? I could have sworn a couple of years ago they were accessible, but it looks like the JTWC recently redid their website and now I cannot find that location.
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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#773 Postby 1900hurricane » Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:12 pm

HurricaneFrances04 wrote:I realize the Best Track for 2018 hasn't been released yet, but is there any location where Lat/Lon, wind speed, pressure, and wind field can be found for WPAC storms in 2018 and 2019? I could have sworn a couple of years ago they were accessible, but it looks like the JTWC recently redid their website and now I cannot find that location.

Maybe this is what you're looking for? It's where I get all the operational b-decks.
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Re: 2018 WPAC Season

#774 Postby HurricaneFrances04 » Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:30 pm

1900hurricane wrote:
HurricaneFrances04 wrote:I realize the Best Track for 2018 hasn't been released yet, but is there any location where Lat/Lon, wind speed, pressure, and wind field can be found for WPAC storms in 2018 and 2019? I could have sworn a couple of years ago they were accessible, but it looks like the JTWC recently redid their website and now I cannot find that location.

Maybe this is what you're looking for? It's where I get all the operational b-decks.


BINGO! Thank you very much!
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