Posted on 05/18/2020 6:13:06 PM PDT by caww
On the scale used by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Amphan was upgraded at 3 am EDT Monday to the 'highest possible level':... Super Cyclonic Storm.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded Amphan to the equivalent of Category 5 strength at 2 am EDT Monday, with top 1-minute sustained winds estimated at 140 knots (160 mph).
Only a handful of storms—about one per decade—achieve this level, which corresponds to a three-minute-averaged wind speed of 120 knots (140 mph). Hurricane ratings by the National Hurricane Center and JTWC are based on one-minute averaging, which will yield higher wind speeds for a given storm.
The most serious threat posed by Amphan is potentially catastrophic storm surge. Even if Amphan's top winds weaken, the storm surge threat will remain dire. Amphan is a large cyclone that is already pushing a tremendous amount of water northward into the Bay of Bengal, which exerts a funneling effect on northward-moving cyclones. Any minor weakening of Amphan’s winds from an eyewall replacement cycle would have little immediate effect on mitigating the storm surge threat, which has already been put into motion (literally). There is a great deal of momentum in the water pushed by large, powerful storms even after they weaken, as evidenced by 2008's Hurricane Ike in Texas and 2012's Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey and New York.
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Bangladesh ordered the evacuation of nearly two million people
It is someone else’s turn to come to the rescue.
And those that survive will rebuild in the same places with the same cesspool environment, to be washed away in the next storm
Let me be the first to say, ‘Trump’s Fault!’ ;)
Dang. That’s a big mutha.
Just like SUPER Storm Sandy.
“It is someone else’s turn to come to the rescue.”
Exactly. We’re tapped out. Ask China to bail you out. ;)
There are two cruise ships affected by this storm that are trying to repatriate laid off staffers to that area of the world.
Nieuw Amsterdam
Crown Princess
A solution to Covid in Bangladesh?
Hurricane? They aren’t called that over there, was that your edit?
Then they’d better turn around, head out to sea and wait it out. Hope they have a good Captain who makes the correct call!
Spring cleaning for ever Rohingyi in the Bay of Bengal. Not a bad thing.
When you say that I get visions of the movie “The perfect storm.”
Heading north to West Bengal & Bangladesh
- heavy rain
- dangerous winds
- huge coastal storm surge
Yes, lots of damage expected because of the surge .......they’re trying to evacuate up to 5 million people.
Bad news returns. In 1970 a cyclone hit Bangladesh and killed upwards of 1/2 a million people.
Punishment for its large population having a lower Wuhan Virus death rate. /sarc
At least they rebuild unlike some others.
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