spiral wrote:
Those cloud tops are sick. Haiyan flashbacks.
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mrbagyo wrote:I just can't wait for the first visible image.
Do we have any day/night band imagery from VIIRS?
WeatherGuesser wrote:NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins warned that Patricia was also on course to be the strongest hurricane or typhoon to ever make landfall.
#Patrica at 200 mph now tied for 3rd strongest storm on our planet. Typhoon 1)Nancy 215 mph 2)Typhoon Violet 205 mph 3)Typhoon Ida 200 mph
WeatherGuesser wrote:NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins warned that Patricia was also on course to be the strongest hurricane or typhoon to ever make landfall.
#Patrica at 200 mph now tied for 3rd strongest storm on our planet. Typhoon 1)Nancy 215 mph 2)Typhoon Violet 205 mph 3)Typhoon Ida 200 mph
Nightwatch wrote:I ready everywhere it's the strongest hurricane on the planet ever recorded.
But is it really? I spotted u guys still taking about "tied with others", and Megi/Haiyan etc?
euro6208 wrote:Just to show how valuable recon is. This looks like many of the Super Typhoons and numerous of them had higher dvorak and ADT, Patricia is at 6.5 and ADT at 7.7 or 161 knots only.
I can't imagine how strong they were especially the mega's Haiyan and Megi.
Patricia would be the 2nd ever TC worldwide to reach 175 knots in the 21st century after Megi...
NotoSans wrote:Nightwatch wrote:I ready everywhere it's the strongest hurricane on the planet ever recorded.
But is it really? I spotted u guys still taking about "tied with others", and Megi/Haiyan etc?
Technically, Patricia is the strongest tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed since reliable record began. Typhoons listed by WeatherGuesser did have higher wind speed (for example, Nancy is a 185-kt storm), but JTWC has stated that the estimates back in the 1960s might not be reliable. For Haiyan, JTWC had it at 170 kt, but it should be noted that no recon were available, and it is based solely on satellite imagery (i.e. the Dvorak technique). For Megi, despite recon supporting 170 kt, JTWC had it at 160 kt in their best track. Storms like Haiyan may have higher intensity, but there were no solid proof. So in the official record, Patricia is no. 1.
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