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euro6208 wrote::uarrow:
My personal strongest is STY Haiyan, Gay, Angela, or June for the strongest TC on the planet.
Haiyan 8.1 ADT with dvorak at 8.0 for over 10 hours...
Gay had a higher ADT 8.7 with a smaller eye thus winds could be more violent
Angela peaked at 8.3
June measured by recon had peak at 875 mb but measured this near the eyewall as the dropsonde missed the center of it's 3 nm eye...(Could have been 10 mb lower)
Tip was dethroned by one of these typhoons or other extremely strong typhoons long time ago...Too bad we have no more recon...
HurricaneEdouard wrote:I wish I had better satellite images of Super Typhoon June (which was more intense than Tip IMO), or even satellite images at all of the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, given that I've never seen an Iris-sized micromonster with 892 (or perhaps lower) pressures and would be very curious what that'd look like on satellite, but there you go!
Reconnaissance
aircraft measured a record low 700 mb height
of 1984 m while traversing the eye and
obtained a coincident minimum sea level
pressure (MSLP) of 876 mb (25.87 in) by
dropsonde near the cloud wall. This observation
was the lowest on record, slightly
lower (1 mb) than Typhoons Ida in 1958 and
Nora in 1973.
Ntxw wrote:Soudelor from Himawari 8 just gorgeous
euro6208 wrote:What about our latest monsters?
Goni and Atsani...
euro6208 wrote:Megi is truly a very very underrated storm and not talked about much. Why ignore a record? It's not in the atlantic that's why...
galaxy401 wrote:euro6208 wrote:Megi is truly a very very underrated storm and not talked about much. Why ignore a record? It's not in the atlantic that's why...
Again with the Atlantic excuse.What specific record has this typhoon shattered exactly? I think the main reason it isn't really talked about is because it has been overshadowed by Haiyan. Megi was very powerful and it was talked about back then.
tatertawt24 wrote:Megi was very impressive, but I prefer Haiyan in terms of satellite presentation.
Also, I'm mad that recon flew into Megi and not Haiyan.
euro6208 wrote:galaxy401 wrote:euro6208 wrote:Megi is truly a very very underrated storm and not talked about much. Why ignore a record? It's not in the atlantic that's why...
Again with the Atlantic excuse.What specific record has this typhoon shattered exactly? I think the main reason it isn't really talked about is because it has been overshadowed by Haiyan. Megi was very powerful and it was talked about back then.
tatertawt24 wrote:Megi was very impressive, but I prefer Haiyan in terms of satellite presentation.
Also, I'm mad that recon flew into Megi and not Haiyan.
Excluding Haiyan which had no recon flew to it, Megi did have and measured a worldwide record sustained wind speed of 175 knots. Many sites list it at 165 knots for some reason but it was stronger than that. Many typhoons back in the old days were measured to be around 165 to 185 knots in STY nancy but were considered overestimated.
Agreed that Haiyan is more impressive than Megi by 200 miles. It could have been like 175 to 200 knots in Haiyan if recon flew in...
Of course, we can't discount the many typhoons after 1987 when recon ended. Many are thought to be equal or even stronger than 165 knots.
tatertawt24 wrote:
Do you have a source for the 175 knots? I have trouble believing that even Haiyan would have 200mph winds, and Megi's presentation was not even close to Haiyan's. Of course, you can't determine winds from the structure, but I can't help but feel more skeptical of it. The only time I could fully accept 175 knots is in a really explosively intensifying storm with a tiny eye, like Forrest (not the best example though, since apparently Forrest's winds were only 150 knots).
At 8:09am EDT (12:09 UTC), the aircraft measured winds at flight level (8,000 feet) of 220 mph. The SFMR surface wind measurement instrument recorded surface winds of 186 mph in regions where heavy rain was not contaminating the measurement, but found surface winds of 199 mph in one region of heavy rain. Now, this measurement is considered contaminated by rain, but at very high wind speeds, the contamination effect is less important than at lower hurricane wind speeds, and it is possible than Megi's surface winds are close to a sustained 200 mph. This is supported by the flight level winds of 220 mph, which support surface winds of 199 mph, using the usual 10% reduction rule of thumb. The Hurricane Hunters measured a surface pressure of 893 mb at 12 UTC.
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