Typhoon Melor and Tropical Storm Parma (click here)
Posted October 7, 2009
November 21, 2007
1505 gmt
West Pacific Satellite, Typhoons Mitag and Hagibis.
HOWEVER. In 2007 these storms were CAT TWO (2) not 4 !!!!!!!!!! Earth is getting hotter every year. The nations that will be effected by the storms this year need to take it very seriously.
FILM LOOP of the twin systems over the Pacific. (click here). There are islands, including Guam, directly in the path of Super Typhoon Melor, now a Cat 4 with winds of 120 mph.
Super Typhoon Parma is now at Cat 4 with winds of 130 mph. The countries in this part of the world have long 'shorelines' and their exposure to these storms are far greater in impact because of it. Japan is a narrow country that does not have a land mass such as the inland from the Gulf Coast to 'cut' the storms dynamics quickly.
The strong Typhoon season, along with other natural disasters, might be viewed as their Katrina.
The Western Pacific has the remaining density of tropical rainforests. The nations of that part of the world have dearly coveted them and protected them for the economy they bring to their people. Those rainforests of the Western Pacific are a success story for the UN Millenium Ecosystem Assessment.
Due to the survival of these systems they contain high levels of water vapor and much of the heat in the troposphere is seeking its way into the oceans through these huge typhoons powered by the water vapor found over these rainforests. Literally, Earth isn't heating faster than it is because of the Asian rainforests. The people of this region are in desperate need of assistance and it is their rainforests that are assisting in the control of Earth's warming trend. The world governments must respond.
October 2, 2009
12:12 gmt
Asian Satellite
Philippine Flood Death Toll Rises to 246 (click title to entry - thank you)
By AP / TERESA CEROJANO
Tuesday, Sep. 29, 2009
(MANILA, Philippines) — Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets Tuesday, pushing the toll from flooding in the northern Philippines to more than 284 dead or missing, while two new storms brewing in the Pacific threatened to complicate relief efforts.
Authorities ordered extra police to be deployed to prevent looting in communities abandoned by fleeing residents, as frustration rose among those who have lost their homes or belongings.
(See pictures of the flooding in the Philippines.)
Queues of bedraggled victims grew long at hundreds of aid distribution centers as floodwaters subsided further and more people went in search of food, clean water, dry clothes and shelter....
October 02, 2009
12:14;gmt
West Pacific Satellite
Deadly Typhoon Powers Across SE Asia (click here)
9:25am UK, Thursday October 01, 2009
One of the most destructive storms in years has extended its deadly path across South East Asia.
Typhoon Ketsana blew down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushed Vietnamese houses under mudslides, days after submerging much of the Philippine capital.
The death toll has climbed to 323 and was still rising amid fears a fresh typhoon could strike the country....
