https://scienceblogs.com/ en https://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2014/12/04/super-typhoon-hagupit <span>Super Typhoon Hagupit</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Super Typhoon Hagupit is on its way to the Philippines. The image above shows the storm track for Typhoon Haiyan, which was a very damaging super Typhoon that came through the same area last year, and served as <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/11/19/haiyan-is-an-example-of-climate-change-making-things-worse/">an example of climate change making things worse</a>. The smaller map is the Japan Meteorological Agency's prediction of Hagupit's path. They are very very similar. </p> <p>Hagupit will not likely be as strong as Haiyan (<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2872">see details here</a>) because the region does not have the extra warm deep water that supercharged Haiyan. But Hagupit is still going to be a bad storm.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="/author/gregladen" lang="" about="/author/gregladen" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">gregladen</a></span> <span>Thu, 12/04/2014 - 05:26</span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/hurricane" hreflang="en">Hurricane</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/severe-weather" hreflang="en">Severe weather</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/super-typhoon-hagupit" hreflang="en">Super Typhoon Hagupit</a></div> </div> </div> <section> <article data-comment-user-id="0" id="comment-1461338" class="js-comment comment-wrapper clearfix"> <mark class="hidden" data-comment-timestamp="1417719287"></mark> <div class="well"> <strong></strong> <div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>"Deep water"? Not surface water?</p> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderLinks" arguments="0=1461338&amp;1=default&amp;2=en&amp;3=" token="FqiotbtVCtBCCXiqJnVbvZDB-qrw7K9BIKxZMuzYkz4"></drupal-render-placeholder> </div> <footer> <em>By <span lang="" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Craig Thomas (not verified)</span> on 04 Dec 2014 <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/taxonomy/term/7974/feed#comment-1461338">#permalink</a></em> <article typeof="schema:Person" about="/user/0"> <div class="field field--name-user-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <a href="/user/0" hreflang="und"><img src="/files/styles/thumbnail/public/default_images/icon-user.png?itok=yQw_eG_q" width="100" height="100" alt="User Image" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> </a> </div> </article> </footer> </article> <article data-comment-user-id="31" id="comment-1461339" class="js-comment comment-wrapper clearfix"> <mark class="hidden" data-comment-timestamp="1417721108"></mark> <div class="well"> <strong></strong> <div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Deep water. But deep in relation to the surface, not "big deep" deep.</p> <p>Tropical cyclones develop with surface waters of some 80F or so, but as they form and move along, they cause mixing near the surface so the part of the sea surface that the front part of the storm is over has been churned up and is now likely lower than that threshold, or at least, cooler. With some recent storms, water was over 80F at depth of 100 or even 200 meters. This means that the cooling caused by churning essentially doesn't happen and the hurricane can grow much stronger.</p> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderLinks" arguments="0=1461339&amp;1=default&amp;2=en&amp;3=" token="Dz3xYs2VR9Lr-3d1UG1FZew0v7O2_AUM1ixrMho_TNI"></drupal-render-placeholder> </div> <footer> <em>By <a title="View user profile." href="/author/gregladen" lang="" about="/author/gregladen" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">gregladen</a> on 04 Dec 2014 <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/taxonomy/term/7974/feed#comment-1461339">#permalink</a></em> <article typeof="schema:Person" about="/author/gregladen"> <div class="field field--name-user-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <a href="/author/gregladen" hreflang="en"><img src="/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/HumanEvolutionIcon350-120x120.jpg?itok=Tg7drSR8" width="100" height="100" alt="Profile picture for user gregladen" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> </a> </div> </article> </footer> </article> <article data-comment-user-id="0" id="comment-1461340" class="js-comment comment-wrapper clearfix"> <mark class="hidden" data-comment-timestamp="1417752063"></mark> <div class="well"> <strong></strong> <div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Here's what iHagupit looks like in real time on the X cellent Earth satellite imagery site -- just rotate the globe to the Philipine side and zoom in .</p> <p><a href="http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-201.39,3.69,244">http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic…</a></p> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderLinks" arguments="0=1461340&amp;1=default&amp;2=en&amp;3=" token="ntoiqF8OJRFFuxaj02eE0EamHRzZ_LERZzH666dtma4"></drupal-render-placeholder> </div> <footer> <em>By <span lang="" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Russell Seitz (not verified)</span> on 04 Dec 2014 <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/taxonomy/term/7974/feed#comment-1461340">#permalink</a></em> <article typeof="schema:Person" about="/user/0"> <div class="field field--name-user-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <a href="/user/0" hreflang="und"><img src="/files/styles/thumbnail/public/default_images/icon-user.png?itok=yQw_eG_q" width="100" height="100" alt="User Image" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> </a> </div> </article> </footer> </article> <article data-comment-user-id="31" id="comment-1461341" class="js-comment comment-wrapper clearfix"> <mark class="hidden" data-comment-timestamp="1417766554"></mark> <div class="well"> <strong></strong> <div class="field field--name-comment-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Wow.</p> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderLinks" arguments="0=1461341&amp;1=default&amp;2=en&amp;3=" token="iW5VqerTAG9ROP8wrHTV7NULxtadTssayjbOSFvMg14"></drupal-render-placeholder> </div> <footer> <em>By <a title="View user profile." href="/author/gregladen" lang="" about="/author/gregladen" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">gregladen</a> on 05 Dec 2014 <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/taxonomy/term/7974/feed#comment-1461341">#permalink</a></em> <article typeof="schema:Person" about="/author/gregladen"> <div class="field field--name-user-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <a href="/author/gregladen" hreflang="en"><img src="/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/HumanEvolutionIcon350-120x120.jpg?itok=Tg7drSR8" width="100" height="100" alt="Profile picture for user gregladen" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> </a> </div> </article> </footer> </article> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"><a href="/user/login?destination=/gregladen/2014/12/04/super-typhoon-hagupit%23comment-form">Log in</a> to post comments</li></ul> Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:26:52 +0000 gregladen 33441 at https://scienceblogs.com