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The Amazing WPAC

#1 Postby SouthFloridawx » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:35 pm

The Amazing WPAC
94W.INVEST
93W.INVEST
92W.INVEST
10W.BOPHA
09W.MARIA
08W.SAOMAI

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Three storms and Three Invests.. The WPAC is poppin right now.

Any thoughts?
Is this normal for the WPAC?
Are there any connection between the WPAC and the ATL?

Sometimes I hear Joe B. talk about how there are patterns that are similar to the WPAC and ATL.
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#2 Postby Cyclenall » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:09 pm

I was going to post this topic because when there are 3 invests and 3 tropical cyclones all at the same time, you know it's busy. I was surprised to see 3 new invests so quickly!
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#3 Postby all_we_know_is_FALLING » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:12 pm

Can you imagine if we had 3 named storms and 3 invests in the ATL? This forum would go cah-razy.
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#4 Postby bombarderoazul » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:12 pm

Wow that's amazing! but, the WPAC is known as the busiest basin in the planet.
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#5 Postby wxmann_91 » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:30 pm

Perfectly normal for the WPAC. Heck, we don't even have a Supertyphoon yet, and there have been instances were there have been two Supertyphoons at the same time.
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#6 Postby Trugunzn » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:41 pm

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#7 Postby mtm4319 » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:51 pm

Any chance someone can label the 6 systems on the picture linked to in the first post?
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#8 Postby Aslkahuna » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:54 am

This period of activity featured only one real typhoon (Maria was very briefly one) and 2 TS's compared to past instances when there were 4 full blown typhoons and two developing systems going at the same time. To put things in perspective, we now have 10 numbered (by JT) systems in WPAC to date which means we are still slower than normal activity wise because we were supposed to have had 10 at the end of July. We are supposed to be up around 16 by the end of August so let's see what happens.

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#9 Postby P.K. » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:06 am

Officially the average is about 14 TSs up to the end of August and there have so far been 9. None of these invest areas are mentioned in the last MetArea bulletin.
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#10 Postby Dave C » Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:20 am

Saomai shows up nicely on Okinawa radar
http://www.jwa.or.jp/area_info/radar6.html
The island just sw of the storm is Miyaka-Jima about 40,000 population. Just a little more southerly track would have hit them head-on.
Also, looks like an outer eyewall is forming on the Radar pic.
Here is the local obs. from Miyaka-Jima
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/ROMY.html
You can see the winds switched from NE to WNW as the typhoon passes to their north.
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