What’s going on, guys?! Meteorologist Jonathan Kegges back with you for another edition of Tropics Watch!
This image is from the Western Pacific! Just wanted to clear that up right off the bat. I wanted to share it with you though because it was crazy.
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Sunday night when Super Typhoon Bavi was at about peak intensity, it completely swallowed the island of Rota. This is just north of Guam in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Super Typhoon Bavi had maximum sustained winds of 180 mph at time. At the time I took the screen shot, though the winds were dead calm in the eye of the typhoon. For a short time the skies would have also been clear. The strongest part of the storm is the eyewall, the colorful ring right around the center.
That is always the part that blows my mind of these storms. The island would have had a rough couple of hours and then felt the brunt of the 180mph storm. Then calm. And then the other eyewall containing 180 mph winds pushed through.
On the Atlantic side it is much quieter.
A robust plume of Saharan dust is dominating the basin and there is no signal whatsoever for an uptick in tropical activity.
Lets keep it that way!
Any questions feel free to hit me at jkegges@wkmg.com
- Jonathan
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