WPAC, Indian Ocean, and Southern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclones

[shaggy]

24 minutes ago, Windspeed said:

Good grief!

Typhoon Kong-Rey is really living up to its name here, folks. The IKE on this thing must be insane. Deep intense ring of convection around a massive 55 nm eye with strong mesovorticies rotating around the inside of the eyewall. The sheer size of the low-level and mid-level vortex combined with such intensity is critical. It's just a different breed of TC in the WPAC, even if the size of this one is still kind of rare to be so strong. It's hard to fathom a TC this large being in the GOM. The storm surge alone would surpass 30 feet along the NGOM coast.

You could fit the entire wind field of Oscar inside the eye of this one

[NorthHillsWx]

Kong-Rey is an absolute beast. My thoughts on the size of this storm are the giant size will make it less likely to weaken significantly before landfall even with terrain impacts 

[NorthHillsWx]

32 minutes ago, shaggy said:

You could fit the entire wind field of Oscar inside the eye of this one

That’s gotta be one of the most impressive sat shots we’ve seen in years size, ferocity, and the just meanness of that eye. This is a monster