mother of all typoons

[grahamw48]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...phoon/3465779/

[gWaPito]

Hope you're safe Tiger don't want you having to spend my future winnings on Repairs (I'm all heart)
Seriously keep safe

http://typhoonstormwatch2012.blogspot.co.uk/

That's the best link I've come across...Thanks Les

The 'Super Typhoon 5' storm looks even more frightening when viewing on live sat

[gWaPito]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...phoon/3465779/

Thanks Graham...I feel sick thinking about this.

I was shocked to read that The Philippines have on average 20 typhoons each year. That's winds upwards of 75mph. I've just learn't that from your link

No wonder greater parts of the Phils look like war zones, they must be continually in the throws of getting straight just as the next one blows in.

[Ako Si Jamie]

I think only half of those typhoons actually reach land.

[SimonH]

Any news from members in the Philippines?
Hope you're all safe and well News headlines this morning was reporting 3 deaths as well as numerous landslides.

[SimonH]

Huge seas in Palawan now with winds up to 313 km/h

[grahamw48]

It looks terrible on the the news programmes this morning.

I feel so sorry for the people there.

[raynaputi]

We're currently in Cavite, and it went very dark by 4pm and heavy rains!

[Terpe]

This is a photo from much earlier but shows landfall as Samar Island withe the centre of the eye right over Dulag.
Tacloban City just on the outer edge.



This is really a monster. Usually once landfall is made the intensity falls....in this case the reports suggest the opposite and the storm intensified.

If the reports are correct the storm may be moving reasonable quickly so theoretically the flood effects due to intensive rainfall may not be as bad as initially projected.

[RickyR]

I looks incredibly severe. I've never seen such a well formed and intense storm on infra red satellite pictures before, this is the perfect/worst storm. I really am also concerned for friends and family in the path.

[Terpe]

Interactive map

[Terpe]

I looks incredibly severe. I've never seen such a well formed and intense storm on infra red satellite pictures before, this is the perfect/worst storm. I really am also concerned for friends and family in the path.

Super Typhoon Haiyan Just Broke All Scientific Intensity Scales, 500 Miles Wide, 236 MPH Winds (Live Stream)



Source:-
http://beforeitsnews.com/weather/201...s-2441868.html

[gWaPito]

I'll praying more than usual today..Thanks Terpe for the time and effort you put in here

[Michael Parnham]

Yes Peter, once again thanks, great job!

[Terpe]

Yes Peter, once again thanks, great job!

I'm not doing anything that others aren't doing.............just reporting on this massive storm.
Today's media and satellite communications makes early warnings accurate and available.
Thousands of lives can be saved and storm structures can be better understood.

In the past couple of years my extended family have been severely impacted.
Looks like those relatives living in Bohol may have been spared the 'eye' of the storm.

Those living in Tacloban City are in our prayers. Fortunately they all now live in 'concrete' houses......just hope they somehow managed to save their roofing which is mostly tin.

Searching out as much information as I can is my way of coping with the anxiety I currently feel.

[Doc Alan]

I'm sure we all share your anxiety Peter, and thanks to everyone here who is keeping us updated . For once the BBC is giving this news the prominence it deserves.

[KeithD]

Live news from Manila .... it missed me

No news from the hit parts though as power and communications are down. We won't know the truth until Sunrise, but the storm surge looked just as bad as the tsunami that hit Japan. It'll be the poor who get hit the hardest as usual.

[Terpe]

Here's a video that's just turned up on YouTube.

Not sure what these people are doing, or even where the video was taken.

It does show the power in the waves and what could happen in the event of a 'rogue' wave.

[Terpe]

[imagine]

9.20 pm manila, cianta time, been much cooler today a welcome cool breeze and some rain,as yet nothing to write home about,lets see how the night goes

[Terpe]

9.20 pm manila, cianta time, been much cooler today a welcome cool breeze and some rain,as yet nothing to write home about,lets see how the night goes

Manila is unlikely to see any real impacts.

[gWaPito]

According to the latest CNN reports, Bolhol would of been hit. ..I'm feeling for Brian right now. ..he's spent his hard earned on that house of his. ..I sure hope freds fishing nets holds his roof together. ..doesn't bear thinking about

[cheekee]

The last time I spoke to my fiance was at 10:00 am this morning. No power now and cant get through on her home phone. She did say Cebu was very windy and the rain was heavy where she is but they were safe at that time. Just a bad leaking roof :(

[cheekee]

Just feeling anxious that I cant get through to her :(

[gWaPito]

Just feeling anxious that I cant get through to her :(

I can imagine cheekie....I remember when I couldn't get through to my first filipina wife ( not the present! ! my girlfriend at the time ) for over 2 weeks....I was Goin out of my mind with worry. .....I needn't of bothered....she was with another boyfriend on holiday. ...at least she was safe

[SimonH]

Just feeling anxious that I cant get through to her :(

Pretty sure the worst of it had passed by 10.00am so it's probably just a line down so nothing to worry about

[cheekee]

I can imagine cheekie....I remember when I couldn't get through to my filipina wife ( my girlfriend at the time ) for over 2 weeks....I was Goin out of my mind with worry. .....I needn't of bothered....she was with another boyfriend on holiday. ...at least she was safe

Thank you. And I'm just so sorry that things ended up the way they did for you.

[cheekee]

Pretty sure the worst of it had passed by 10.00am so it's probably just a line down so nothing to worry about

Thank you. I am sure you are right

[cheekee]

Just received Facebook message. She is ok .

[Terpe]

Yolanda goes 'island hopping,' makes 5 landfalls



He has lost sleep but certainly not his humor. To illustrate the extent of super typhoon Yolanda, state weather bureau PAGASA officer in charge Vicente Malano referred to its movement as "island hopping."

"Yolanda made 5 landfalls," Malano said in a briefing Friday afternoon, November 8. "It is island hopping," he added. (READ: Wrap: Monster winds, giant waves)

Triggering giant waves and monster winds, Yolanda is considered by weather experts as perhaps one of the world's most powerful typhoons in the past century. (READ: Most powerful 2013 storm hits PH)

An average of 20 typhoons visit the Philippines every year. But they usually hit landmass, make one landfall and then slow down as it moves away. It is considered a landfall if the eyewall of the typhoon hits land. It is at the eyewall that the winds are strongest.

In the case of Yolanda, the super typhoon hit the island provinces of the Visayas, gathering more "energy" as it hit waters in between, Malano said.

The first landfall happened in Guiuan town of Easter Samar at 4:40 am Friday. The second occurred in Tolosa town of Leyte at 7 am, while the third landfall was in Daang Bantayan in Cebu at 10 am. Yolanda made its fourth landfall in Bantayan Island also in Cebu at 10:40 am and the fifth in Concepcion town in Iloilo at 12 noon.

Yolanda will also pass through Boracay island of Aklan, Semirara of Antique, and San Jose of Mindoro before its projected exit in Busuanga, Palawan on Saturday morning, November 9.

A possible 6th landfall may happen in Calamian Group of Islands located at the northern tip of Palawan if the track doesn't change, according to PAGASA forecaster Rene Paciente.

Yolanda is expected to exit the country's landmass around 10 pm Friday towards the West Philippine Sea. It will exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility 10 am Saturday.

Malano recalled a similar typhoon that hit the Philippines in 1990. Typhoon Ruping, which also hit Leyte and Samar, killed 508 people and injured over a thousand.

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council executive director Eduardo Del Rosario said Filipinos are a lot more prepared now than in the '90s in terms of mitigating disaster

Source:-
http://www.rappler.com/nation/43215-...ndfalls-pagasa