Typhoon Tip Satellite Image

[Cyclone1]

Lol, I could, but I really don't feel like it right now. Maybe later I'll make a photoshop with several more huge hurricanes.

[HurricaneBill]

Somebody should find a way to photoshop Cyclone Tracy into one of the Tip images.

[whereverwx]

Somebody should find a way to photoshop Cyclone Tracy into one of the Tip images.

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I hope this works:

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[HURAKAN]

[Cyclone1]

That's one awesome image!

[Ptarmigan]

All we need is some disco music.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

What a let down Tips appears to be. I always thought that if it was in the Atlatnic, it would cover a much larger area, but I guest it was only slightly bigger then Katrina and Wilma. There has got to be bigger for the Western Pacific.

[loro-rojo]

What a let down Tips appears to be. I always thought that if it was in the Atlatnic, it would cover a much larger area, but I guest it was only slightly bigger then Katrina and Wilma. There has got to be bigger for the Western Pacific.

I agree. I'm actually a bit dissapointed by not only the size of Tip, but by also the size of Tracy. I think that this representation of both cyclones is not accurate...

[HURAKAN]

Don't know if this helps or anything.

[HURAKAN]

It seems that what made Tip so incredible was not the size of the storm, but the extend of the winds.

5. Which are the largest and smallest tropical cyclones on record?

Source: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/pages/FAQ/ ... ecords.php

Typhoon Tip had gale force winds (17 m/s [34 kt, 39 mph]) which extended out for 1100 km [675 mi]in radius in the Northwest Pacific on 12 October, 1979 (Dunnavan and Diercks 1980). Tropical Cyclone Tracy had gale force winds that only extended 50 km [30 mi] radius when it struck Darwin, Australia, on 24 December, 1974 (Bureau of Meteorology 1977).

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/gibbs/ ... html#image

Wilma was not much smaller then Tips on the 'same' area you placed TIPs on that Image. I almost dare to say that Wilma looked badder with its -90c cloud tops.

Hell, I almost say that Wilma, at least on that image was the same size. Tips almost got dethorned.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/gibbs/ ... 12-ir.html


I look at this image of Wilma, and all I can say is that she deserves to be listed near Tips for size.

[Derek Ortt]

matt... please

a TC size is defined by wind field not cloud field. To say Tip was a letdown is absurred, IMO. Wilma was about 60% of Tip's size... meaning, Tip was nearly twice as large as Wilma

[Cyclenall]

matt... please

a TC size is defined by wind field not cloud field. To say Tip was a letdown is absurred, IMO. Wilma was about 60% of Tip's size... meaning, Tip was nearly twice as large as Wilma

So the cloud field of Wilma was larger then Tip?

[Cyclone1]

[Derek Ortt]

the cloud field may have been somewhat similar between Wilma (east of the Bahamas) and Tip, but Tip's wind circulation was about twice as large of Wilmas (alo, those sat images may not even be drawn to scale)

[Cyclone1]

The images are to perfectly to scale, personally I think Tip looks a lot bigger than Wilma.

[Derek Ortt]

two things

1. You have the wrong time period for Wilma. That is Wilma in the Caribbean and we are discussing Wilma east of the Bahamas

2. I still believe Tip's cloud field is larger... but its Windfield is yet even larger

[Cyclone1]

I was using the image matt provided for Wilma.

[MiamiensisWx]

Personally, Tip's circulation still looks much larger than Wilma to me. The circulation of Tip essentially covers the entire image in Cyclone1's post. Although the comparison shows Wilma at peak intensity in the Caribbean, I doubt Wilma's circulation east of FL matched Tip. I will admit that Tracy's circulation may be slightly larger than some reports, but the image comparison with Tip removes anyone's doubts that it was a midget TC. It is small as it looks, and its wind radii was definitely exceptionally compact...