Doden in Azië door supertyfoon USAGI

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Op donderdag 19 september 2013 12:25 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Recht op Hong Kong

En zuidelijk Taiwan zal ook een flinke lading krijgen

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In the Western Pacific, powerful and dangerous Typhoon Usagi has intensified to a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. Further intensification is likely over the next day, as Usagi is over very warm waters of 29 - 30°C with high heat content, and is under light wind shear of 5 - 10 knots. The official JTWC forecast brings Usagi to a Category 5 super typhoon by Friday, which would make Usagi Earth's first Category 5 storm of 2013. Usagi will pass very close to the southern tip of Taiwan at 06 UTC Saturday (2 am EDT), and interaction with land could potentially weaken the storm. However, Usagi is still expected to be a major Category 3 typhoon when it makes landfall near Hong Kong at approximately 00 UTC Sunday (8 pm EDT Saturday.) Satellite images show that Usagi is a large and very impressive typhoon with a prominent eye surrounded by a thick eyewall with intense thunderstorms that reach high into the atmosphere.

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Op donderdag 19 september 2013 15:55 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Achter USAGI lijkt ook nog een enorm complex te volgen?
Heeft dat ook potentie of trekt USAGI alle energie weg?

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Op zaterdag 21 september 2013 11:49 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Dat is nog een understatement zelfs. Direct tegen Hong Kong aan ligt (over de grens in China) Shenzhen met 10+ miljoen inwoners.

Boh, wat zullen die windsnelheden zijn in al die enorm smalle straatjes tussen de gigantische wolkenkrabbers in Hong Kong? Dat worden ware windtunnels.

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Dangerous Category 3 Typhoon Usagi is charging through the Luzon Strait between Taiwan and the Philippines on its way towards China, where landfall is expected early Monday morning local time (near 2 pm EDT on Sunday) near Hong Hong. The typhoon battered the northern Philippine Batanes Islands overnight with wind gusts of up to 155 mph (250 kph), ripping down power lines and damaging crops, according to the South China Morning Post. Torrential rains of over a foot (305 mm) have fallen in 24 hours over eastern Taiwan, where Usagi's counterclockwise flow of moist air rode up over the high mountains of the island. Usagi reached its peak strength on Thursday, taking advantage of low wind shear and very warm waters 30°C with high heat content, to intensify to a Category 5 super typhoon with 160 mph winds. On Friday, Usagi began an eyewall replacement cycle that the typhoon is still attempting to complete. This process, where the inner eyewall collapses and a new, larger-diameter eyewall forms from an outer spiral band, typically causes a reduction in intensity by one Saffir-Simpson category, but spreads out the storm's hurricane-force winds over a larger area. Satellite images show that Usagi has lost its symmetry and the cloudtops have warmed, indicating weakening; this weakening is likely due to disruption of the low-level inflow by the high mountains of Taiwan. Wind shear is low, near 10 knots, but ocean temperatures have cooled to about 29°C, and the heat content of the waters is much lower than on Friday.

Forecast for Usagi
Continued slow weakening of Usagi is likely as the storm tries to complete its eyewall replacement cycle as ocean temperatures cool to 28°C and the heat content of the water diminishes. By the time Usagi reaches the coast near Hong Hong in the early morning hours on Monday (local time), the storm should be at Category 2 strength. This is still strong enough to pose a formidable storm surge, wind, and heavy rain threat to China, and Usagi is likely to be one of the five strongest typhoons to affect Hong Hong in the past 50 years. If the eye of the storm hits just west of Hong Kong, a large storm surge capable of causing over a billion dollars in damage will inundate portions of the coast along the bay that Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen share. Wunderground's weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, will be posting a summary of Hong Hong's typhoon history on Saturday afternoon around 4 pm EDT. The most notable typhoon to hit Hong Kong in the past 50 years was Typhoon Rose of 1971, which sank over 300 boats and killed 110 people.

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Op zaterdag 21 september 2013 20:48 schreef static het volgende:

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Hong Kong heeft een zeer uitgebreid waarschuwingssysteem (zelf ook al eens ondervonden toen ik er woonde): http://www.hko.gov.hk/wservice/warning/rainstor.htm

Alhoewel dit wel érg veel lijkt wat komen gaat.

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Op zaterdag 21 september 2013 20:48 schreef static het volgende:

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Hong Kong heeft een zeer uitgebreid waarschuwingssysteem (zelf ook al eens ondervonden toen ik er woonde): http://www.hko.gov.hk/wservice/warning/rainstor.htm

Alhoewel dit wel érg veel lijkt wat komen gaat.