Super Typhoon Rammasun This is a satellite image of super typhoon Rammasun, which struck the island
Super Typhoon RammasunThis is a satellite image of super typhoon Rammasun, which struck the island of Hainan on Friday.This storm has spent the last several days churning its way through the countries on the Pacific Basin. Earlier this week, it struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines with 125 mph winds as a category 3 storm; this was the first typhoon to hit that nation since super-Typhoon Haiyan devastated large areas of Luzon last year. Over 50 were reported killedduring the Philippines landfall.The storm was intensifying rapidly prior to landfall in the Philippines, but hitting land disrupted that process at the time. It left the Philippines as a weakened storm but found ideal conditions over the South China Sea to strengthen again. During the hours over the ocean, it strengthened into a category 4 Super-Typhoon.The island of Hainan has a population of about 8 million and this is now the strongest storm to hit that island in at least a decade, possibly in several decades.The storm is once again moving out over water and is expected to make a final landfall in Vietnam while still remaining a strong typhoon.The storm is also called typhoon Glenda in the Philippines, the Siamese word for “Thunder God.”-JBBImage credit: NASAhttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=84050Read more:http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/category-3-typhoon-rammasun-hits-the-philippineshttp://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2729http://earthsky.org/earth/typhoon-rammasun-rapidly-intensifies-as-it-approaches-hainan -- source link
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