blazess556 Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Pressure in Tacloban City is dropping like a rock. As of 7 am local time, it was reporting 957.4 mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Pressure in Tacloban City is dropping like a rock. As of 7 am local time, it was reporting 957.4 mb I am pretty sure that's the last report we get out of there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmagan Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 You would think the JTWC would give more frequent updates like they do when a storm approaches Japan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanwx Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Anybody find any pressure obs reasonably close to the eye? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caviman2201 Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 None of the Twitter or FB feeds from chasers in Tacloban have been updated in quite a while... They were posting every few mins for a while there... wonder if cell service was knocked out. Looks like it took a direct hit from the northern eyewall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxtrackercody Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 From Twitter: http://t.co/ojTbLnN010Damage: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierwx Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 One of the local mets was reporting that sustained winds were 195 mph with gusts to 235 mph. Is that what everyone else is hearing? I haven't been able to find anything official. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 One of the local mets was reporting that sustained winds were 195 mph with gusts to 235 mph. Is that what everyone else is hearing? I haven't been able to find anything official. That was an official forecast/update from the met center that side of the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 That number is just from the JTWC last update. really wont have a good idea regarding wind measurements until power is restored and/or the amount of wind damage seen. Even with these pics and vids, we don't know where they were taken so there is no good frame of reference regarding the severity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 This afternoon an outer band did gradually strengthen, and the west/northwest part of the eyewall did weaken some, but overall the inner eyewall remained quite robust up to landfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CryHavoc Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Absolutely stunning. I just wish we had a better estimate of core pressure than 895, which is obviously very strong but I do not believe it does justice to the power of this monster. http://instagram.com/p/gbow7rKWz7/ Video of early wind/damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 This afternoon an outer band did gradually strengthen, and the west/northwest part of the eyewall did weaken some, but overall the inner eyewall remained quite robust up to landfall. Almost looks like it tried to do a quick ERC and didn't loose much symmetry in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Animated GIF of LF http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/131107_coms1_vis_haiyan_landfall_anim.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Nice blog post from CIMSS http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandymanColumbusGA Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Thought this was cool...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBc_wNPCq8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Hard to say what the speeds are in this one, and no info on exactly where and when it was shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NlviFWOE9c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick05 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 meanwhile, this is in Ormoc City... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFfVQoBvKI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhb Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 meanwhile, this is in Ormoc City... That's pretty scary considering that's on the west side of the island, I can't imagine the conditions in an area like Guiuan which took a direct hit from the northern eyewall with essentially nothing to buffer the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Hard to say what the speeds are in this one, and no info on exactly where and when it was shot: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NlviFWOE9c) That's fake, that footage is from Cyclone Evan in Fiji during January of this year. Fakes have to be watched out for during these massive weather events. Can't say I'm surprised, its some of the best of 2013 TC-wise but that will likely change with Haiyan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1900hurricane Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 This may be rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things with the human impact and all, but I really hope a half-decent pressure reading from the eye or inner part of the eyewall was able to be recorded, whether it be from Guiuan or somewhere south of Talcoban. I'm not super optimistic that we were able to get a really good one, but it would be really nice for reanalysis/research purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick05 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 This may be rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things with the human impact and all, but I really hope a half-decent pressure reading from the eye or inner part of the eyewall was able to be recorded, whether it be from Guiuan or somewhere south of Talcoban. I'm not super optimistic that we were able to get a really good one, but it would be really nice for reanalysis/research purposes. well PAGASA's station in Tacloban recorded 955hPa about half an hour before the eye made its closest pass; the station stopped reporting after that... another station, this time in the island of Coron in Palawan (Western Philippines) bottomed out at 955hPa as well... the eye passed within 20km of that station i presume.. it's also interesting to note that at the time of the eye passage, temperature shot up by 2C (26C from 24C) then dropped down back to 24C 30 minutes after the eye moved through... all other stations in which the eye moved through stopped working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanwx Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Did the chasers get any noteworthy pressure readings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoAko Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Did the chasers get any noteworthy pressure readings? They haven't been heard from yet. It may take a while to learn something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Here's the true color Vis from Suomi NPP VIRRS from mid-day (local time) when Haiyan was over the central islands. Careful, it's 50mb. http://nereus.nesdis-hq.noaa.gov/images/high_resolution/104833v1_20131108-STHaiyanVIIRSfull.png Also, here's the full-rez version of the IR image tweeted yesterday: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/images/high_resolution/104832v1_20131107-Haiyan-VIIRS-nolabel.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 whomp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 whomp I love that you can see the parallax in an IR product. What a great time to be in the remote sensing business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1900hurricane Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 whomp I'm not sure which image is more impressive, the one above or this one (taken just 21 minutes later). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick05 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 people might have forgotten but Republic of Palau also got hit hard with the island of Kayangel located very near the eyewall as it passed by as a strengthening Cat 4 last Wednesday... pics: http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39427:palau-picks-up-after-super-typhoon-haiyan-passes&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 I'm not sure which image is more impressive, the one above or this one (taken just 21 minutes later). They're all simply stunning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Currently, I believe it's rank in history is very inconclusive. There are 68 Typhoons in the basin listed at or below 895 mb. For all we know, its rank could be anywhere from 1-68. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropical_cyclones Certainly one of the strongest to hit land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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