Christine Hudnall

Updated: 12:06AM - 093008 - added image by James Reynolds of TyphoonFury below.

The tropics and Atlantic have been busy, as well as the Pacific - so get ready for a long post!

Let’s start in the West Pacific where they have been getting hit hard by storm after storm. The latest to hit was Super Typhoon Jangmi, which is now listed as a Severe Tropical Storm. There is also Tropical Storm Mekkhala and Tropical Depression Twenty-one out there too.

Just yesterday (can that really be?) Tropical Storm Jangmi was Super Typhoon Jangmi, that by Atlantic Basin standards had gotten up to Category 4, with 155 mph winds. (Do typhoons get rated the same as hurricanes - hmmm, something to look up and learn!) It crossed over Taiwan, north of Hualien. It is now back over water, and according to the history on Wunderground, after it became a tropical storm, it actually hit category 1 again, before going back to tropical storm. Scroll down and look at the coordinates. Nothing is showing that it will return to a typhoon again, but I do wonder, since it is headed back toward warmer waters. Click on the satellite image to get larger image.

Then there is Tropical Storm Mekkhala - forecast is not showing that Mekkhala will become a typhoon before landfall, latest information is showing winds at 45mph. With the high sst’s, it might just pick up a little more, we shall keep watching.

Also worth watching is newly formed Tropical Depression Twenty-one (TD 21) - located at 8.7N 131.6E, winds at 30mph.

The following section has been updated.

Want to know and see more about our hurricane cousins, typhoons, then head over to TyphoonFury, website of James Reynolds. With luck, I will update this post later with small image that James took of surge coming into Hualein harbor. Absolutely amazing! Just am waiting to hear back if I have permission or not. Keep your fingers crossed. Received reply back from James, he is such a sweetie!

Hi Christine.

Thanks for the email. Please feel free to download that pic and any other and put it on your website and thanks for offering to link the image too! I love your website, it great to see typhoons being featured.

Take care and if there’s anything else I can help you with please let me know.

Cheers,

James.

Isn’t that the nicest! First, thanks for looking, and second thanks for saying yes! :) Will only use the one image for now, but people should absolutely go and look at the video - amazing! YouTube video by James of Super Typhoon Jangmi. All copyrights and usage terms belong to James for his image, all his rights are reserved. I asked and received permission to use, you need to do the same.

Onto the Atlantic:

I haven’t posted anything but honestly we did have a Hurricane Kyle out there, he is now post-tropical according to Environment Canada, which is where he is right now. From looking at satellite image, if he had a center, it would be located over Anticosti Island in Southern Quebec. Kyle had just weakened to a tropical storm as he made landfall last night at 9:30PM, just north of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Sub-tropical Storm Laura is located, as of 5:00AM, at 37.2N 47.3W, winds at 60mph. From satellite images, she looks to be heading WNW, but is forecast to start her turn toward the north east. It will be interesting to see if she will be upgraded sometime today, even as she is heading toward cooler waters.

Here on the homefront we are listed at 70% of showers likely for today with 40% 50% (I just love when they change it while typing) chance for thunderstorms tonight. Would it be wrong to say, please, please, please - I need more lightning shots! :-D

Okay, now for some kudos to go out. Dewdrop has been giving out awards on her site to others, myself included in the receiving. Well, I figured it was my turn to give out some, even if noone reads my blog, but for the Dew. I stand corrected, not only does the Dew read it, but the Milkman does too! ;-)*laughs* That’s okay, I read other sites and I have listed 5 that have helped me or inspired me. That’s not to say that many others don’t, I just had to narrow it down and 5 was a nice number. :D

I won’t repeat the list here, but will send you to the newly formed Kudos page, located in the top links of the blog. Don’t want to scroll all the way back up, that is okay, I wouldn’t either, so here you go, a handy-dandy quick link to the Kudos page.