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Super-Typhoon Usagi: 'Most powerful storm on the planet since 1984' is tearing through Southern Pacific, headed for Hong Kong

Rob Williams
The Independent, UK
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:11 UTC
Usagi
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A monster Super Typhoon has intensified explosively in the last 24 hours and remains on track to wreak havoc in Taiwan, the Philippines and potentially Hong Kong over the weekend.

Over the last day Super Typhoon Usagi, which is now the strongest storm to form on earth this year, has seen winds increase from 75mph on Tuesday to over 160 mph today. The cyclone is now classified now as a Super Typhoon and is considered the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane.

The storm, which is expected to maintain its current strength for at least the next 24 hours, is on course to dump 1000mm of rain (three times the annual London rainfall) on Taiwan over the next three days.

The storm is set to roar between the Philippines and Taiwan before hammering the southern Chinese coast, and possibly Hong Kong, later in the weekend.

Experts have said that due to the lack of 'hurricane hunter' aircraft in the Pacific they can't accurately measure how strong the storm is, and that it may be even stronger.
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Cloud Precipitation

Super Typhoon Usagi threatens Taiwan, Northern Philippines, and Hong Kong


WeatherChannel.com
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:09 UTC
Super Typhoon Usagi,the equivalent of a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, intensified rapidly Thursday in the western Pacific Ocean and will threaten parts of Taiwan, the far northern Philippines and southern China through the next several days.

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A tropical cyclone is dubbed a "super typhoon" when maximum sustained winds reach at least 150 mph. Usagi underwent a period of rapid intensification from early Wednesday through midday Thursday (U.S. Eastern time), going from a 55-knot tropical storm to a 140-knot super typhoon in just 33 hours, or just under a 100 mph intensification, based on satellite estimates of intensity.
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Bizarro Earth

Signs of change in September 2013

HawkkeyDavis Channel
YouTube
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:21 UTC
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A snapshot of the weather around the planet in the past week or so. Floods devastate parts of the U.S., Mexico and India; tornadoes wipe out Tokyo and Bangkok suburbs; mass fish deaths in the U.S. and China; a smokenado in the U.S. (?! yes, it's new to us too!); massive fireballs over Italy (for the second week running) and the U.S. (where they're now being reported daily); major hailstorms in the UK... what in the world is going on?

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Cloud Lightning

Downpours, hailstorm leave 7 dead in north west China


China Daily
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:39 UTC
china flood
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Seven people died and another went missing after downpours and hailstorms lashed Northwest China's Gansu province late Monday, local authorities said Tuesday.

The heavy rain hit parts of Dingxi city, Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture and the provincial capital Lanzhou from 7 pm to 11 pm Monday, said the provincial government.

Twenty-six people were injured. Nearly 20,000 people were affected and 213 houses collapsed.
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Nuke

Leaking Fukushima nuclear plant dumped more than 1,000 tons of polluted water into the sea after Typhoon Man-yi raked the facility


SBS.com
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:09 UTC
The operator of the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it dumped more than 1,000 tons of polluted water into the sea after a typhoon raked the facility. Typhoon Man-yi smashed into Japan on Monday, bringing with it heavy rain that caused flooding in some parts of the country, including the ancient city of Kyoto.

The rain also lashed near the broken plant run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), swamping enclosure walls around clusters of water tanks containing toxic water that was used to cool broken reactors. Some of the tanks were earlier found to be leaking contaminated water.
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Muddy water of the Katsura river runs under a bridge in Kyoto as torrential rain hit western Japan. (AAP)
"Workers measured the radioactive levels of the water collected in the enclosure walls, pumping it back into tanks when the levels were high," said a TEPCO official. "Once finding it was mostly rain water they released it from the enclosure, because there is a limit on how much water we can store."

The utility said about 1,130 tons of water with low levels of radiation -- below the 30 becquerels of strontium per litre safety limit imposed by Japanese authorities -- were released into the ground. But the company also said at one site where water was found contaminated beyond the safety limit workers could not start the water pump quick enough in the torrential rain, and toxic water had leaked from the enclosure for several minutes.
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Bizarro Earth

Rare twin storms batter Mexico, 40 dead


Channel News Asia
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:32 UTC
Mexican Storm
© AFP/Pedro Pardo
Residents attempt to leave the flooded area in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, after heavy rains hit the area.
Acapulco: Mexico reeled Monday from the rare one-two punch of major storms on opposite coasts that triggered floods and landslides, killing at least 40 people while stranding tourists in Acapulco.

The Pacific coast was still being battered by the remnants of tropical storm Manuel, which continued to dump rain after dissipating, while hurricane Ingrid hit the northeast with tropical storm force before being further downgraded.

Thousands of people were evacuated as the two storms set off landslides and floods that damaged bridges, roads and homes across the country.

Water rose to almost 10 feet (three meters) in parts of the Pacific resort of Acapulco, cutting off the main highway to the city and marooning tens of thousands of Mexican and foreign beach-goers.

The last time Mexico was hit by two tropical storms in the span of 24 hours was in 1958, officials said. Never had it been struck by a hurricane and another storm at the same time, forecasters said.
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Cloud Precipitation

From extreme drought to extreme rainfall in 24 hours: Six dead, 500 unaccounted for in devastating Colorado flash-floods

Mark Leberfinger,
AccuWeather.com
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:31 UTC
colorado flooding
© Cliff Grassmick AP
Railroad tracks at 9th Street, East of Airport Road, continue to be flooded in Longmont, Colo, on Sept. 14, 2013.
As many as six people are reported dead after historic flooding in Colorado.

At least 482 people remained unaccounted for in Larimer County, Colo., the county's sheriff Twitter feed announced Sunday morning. In Boulder County, there were 431 entries on the county's unaccounted-for list at 9 a.m., local time, but they were reduced to 212 entries by 3 p.m., representing 326 people, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said.

At least one person was killed in a collapsed home due to the flooding. Another life was taken on the 200 block of Linden in Boulder, Boulder Emergency Management officials reported. A third person was found dead in Fountain Creek, Colorado Springs police said. The fourth person died in Boulder, authorities told The Associated Press.
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Cloud Lightning

Big storms hit Mexico on opposite coasts; 21 dead

Jose Antonio, Rivera
Associated Press
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:27 UTC
Storm in Mexico
© AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez
A man takes a photo with his phone as a car lies on its side after a portion of a hill collapsed due to heavy rains in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013.Flooding and landslides unleashed by Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel have claimed at least a dozen lives in Mexico and sparked the evacuations of thousands of people even before the weather systems had made landfall on the country's east and west coasts.
(Acapulco) - The remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel continued to deluge Mexico's southwestern Pacific shoulder with dangerous rains while Hurricane Ingrid weakened to a tropical storm after making a Monday landfall on the country's opposite coast in an unusual double onslaught that federal authorities said had caused at least 21 deaths.

The heaviest blow Sunday fell on the southern coastal state of Guerrero, where Mexico's government reported 14 confirmed deaths. State officials said people had been killed in landslides, drownings in a swollen river and a truck crash on a rain-slickened mountain highway.

Mexico's federal Civil Protection coordinator, Luis Felipe Puente, told reporters late Sunday that stormy weather from one or both of the two systems also caused three deaths in Hidalgo, three in Puebla and one in Oaxaca.

Getting hit by a tropical storm and a hurricane at the same time "is completely atypical" for Mexico, Juan Manuel Caballero, coordinator of the country's National Weather Service, said at a news conference with Puente.
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Cloud Lightning

Severe weather warning for Victoria, Austrailia

Thomas O'Byrne
The Age
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:35 UTC
Victorians are being urged to batten down because severe thunderstorms, strong winds and heavy rain are predicted to hit areas across the state.

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned that thundstorms could strike Melbourne "at any time", with residents in the state's west facing flash floods, hailstones and strong winds.

A senior forecaster at the weather bureau, Scott Williams, warned that thunderstorms could hit Melbourne "at any time" on Monday afternoon or evening.

In addition to the storm risk, Mr Williams said sporadic storms and steady rain would continue to lash large areas of the state.

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Bizarro Earth

Thousands evacuated as typhoon Man-yi hits Japan


Agence France-Presse
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 02:22 UTC
Typhoon Man-yi
© Agence France-Presse
People gather to wait for flight resumption at Haneda airport in Tokyo. Almost 300,000 households were told to evacuate after Typhoon Man-yi hit central Japan.
Typhoon Man-yi hit central Japan Monday, with almost 300,000 households told to evacuate and fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The typhoon made landfall in Toyohashi, Aichi prefecture, shortly before 8am local time, packing gusts of up to 162 kilometres per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Public broadcaster NHK said four people were missing due to landslides or floods, while at least 65 people were injured and more than 860 houses flooded.

The typhoon was moving north-northeast at a speed of 55 kilometres per hour, with the eye of the storm passing within 50 kilometres north of the capital at around noon.
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