The posts in this forum are NOT official forecasts and should not be used as such. They are just the opinion of the poster and may or may not be backed by sound meteorological data. They are NOT endorsed by any professional institution or STORM2K. For official information, please refer to products from the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service.
And for once, the JMA has a much stronger intensity than the JTWC, who have this as a 40kt TS, and that's a one-minute speed, too. I can kind of see their logic, though, as this doesn't have a forward right quadrant whatsoever.
I would have to agree with the JTWC with its 40 knots (45 mph) estimate. First, the system hasn't been able since it formed to contract its circulation, and as all we know, smaller systems develop faster than larger systems. Second, its convective pattern is just horrible, the system has always been lop-sided to the south, keeping the northern sections always dry. Third, going back to the circulation, it's very broad, and usually systems have a harder time to intensify. It's just a mess. I don't know how this system is almost a typhoon according to JMA, because 55 knots 10-min is equal to 62.7 knots 1-min, a typhoon will be 64 knots.
The half of the storm missing, to the north, is interesting to me.
The Yellow Sea is north, too--by Korea.
The Yellow Sea gets its name from the sand that flows down the Yellow River.
The Yellow River flows from what is now filling to be the largest dammed lake in the world behind Three Gorge dam. The lake will be the size of the largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Superior.
Last month the dam itself was completed and the river was rediverted back to the dam.
The West Pac is going to be dam interesting this year.