WPAC: RAMMASUN - Post-Tropical

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Very scary now for Wenchang.

[euro6208]

Super Typhoon Rammasun making landfall with winds of 135 knots!

Although ADT had it higher 7.1 or 143 knots!

[Alyono]

may be slightly north of Wenchang

[supercane4867]

Heard several reports of sunny skies as the eye passing over coastline

[euro6208]

When did the JTWC overstated intensity on this storm?

The bashers were out full force when this was approaching the P.I saying overestimate but since this left the P.I and rapidly intensified over the South china sea no one was saying JT was underestimating

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Do we have members from eastern Hainan?

[xtyphooncyclonex]

JMA did not change the intensity of Rammasun, leaving it officially at 90 kts (165 km/h) which is still a very strong typhoon. Looks more like 105 kts (195 km/h) in JMA 10-min scale.

[dexterlabio]

unfortunately, we may soon (as in a half hour) see highrises tested by extreme TC winds

Is Hainan an urbanized area? Yeah even RC structures can easily be smashed by a few Cat5 wind gusts. Damage would be greater in structures reaching flight level...

[yulou]

Wengtian: Gust wind 56.2 m/s

[Alyono]

unfortunately, we may soon (as in a half hour) see highrises tested by extreme TC winds

Is Hainan an urbanized area? Yeah even RC structures can easily be smashed by a few Cat5 wind gusts. Damage would be greater in structures reaching flight level...

eyewall about to go over a city of 2.5 million (Haikou)

this is a very highly urbanized area

[wxmann_91]

unfortunately, we may soon (as in a half hour) see highrises tested by extreme TC winds

Is Hainan an urbanized area? Yeah even RC structures can easily be smashed by a few Cat5 wind gusts. Damage would be greater in structures reaching flight level...

Haikou is a city of 2 million people with a widespread area of high rises.

[dexterlabio]

eyewall about to go over a city of 2.5 million (Haikou)

this is a very highly urbanized area

Wow that sucks. Even in the Phils when the storm was much weaker than it is now, there were a lot of smashed window glasses from high-rise buildings in Metro Manila. One can just imagine what it will be like this time over that city...

[supercane4867]

The two largest cities in the province, Haikou and Sanya, are highly modernized including many skyscrapers in the urban areas and the former one is about to be directly affect by a 135kt super typhoon

[supercane4867]

Here is a non-lastest satellite imagery with forecast map for those who are not familiar with places in China. Wenchang is labeled south of Bamen Bay

[Alyono]

a prolonged west track would possibly create a catastrophic tidal surge situation for the Gulf of Tonkin

[euro6208]

Nearing landfall

[euro6208]

PGTW up to 7.0 = 140 knots.

[beoumont]

More symmetric with every picture:

[Nederlander]

Haikou getting pounded right now. Looks like she is trying to follow right through the Qiongzhou Strait. I am not sure what kind of impact this will have on allowing Rammasun to keep its core intact, but it likes staying over water and from what I understand its pretty deep right there.

[euro6208]

Western eyewall making landfall winds of 135 knots slamming the coast.

System as a whole affecting over 100 million people, 9 million in hainan island alone.