The "the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall anywhere in the world in modern records" is happening as we speak.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/07/243736249/super-typhoon-haiyan-bears-down-on-philippines-years-most-powerful-storm

Yolanda is "the 25th tropical cyclone to hit the Phillipines this year".

Jebus, and we thought we were in hurricane alley. lol

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/08/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-destruction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Haiyan had winds of 190 - 195 mph at landfall, making it the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic's Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2573

In case anyone noticed, in some stories this thing is referred to as Typhoon Yolanda. In other stories it's called Typhoon Haiyan.
I guess the damn thing is so powerful they needed to give it two names. lol

[quote="Bob"]Haiyan had winds of 190 - 195 mph at landfall, making it the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history. The previous record was held by the Atlantic's Hurricane Camille of 1969, which made landfall in Mississippi with 190 mph winds.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2573[/quotE

I heard sustained winds of 190-195. Is that even possible?

God help those poor people. What horrific misery they are facing and for such a long duration.

Makes me very, very sad.

stormwatch89 wrote:

I heard sustained winds of 190-195.  Is that even possible?

Yep.  The highest sustained winds ever recorded in a tropical cyclone (hurricane/typhoon) were the 215 mph sustained winds in Typhoon Nancy in 1961.  But that measurement was made when it was over water.  It weakened to a cat 2 at landfall.
Until this,  Hurricane Camille held the record sustained wind speed at landfall at 190 mph.  But this typhoon has now beaten that record.

Storms like this make Ivan look like a little afternoon breeze.  158-206 mph is the wind speed of an F3 tornado.  This is almost into the category of an F4 tornado.  Except a whole lot bigger.

I feel bad for those people

[b] This is almost into the category of an F4 tornado.  Except a whole lot bigger.[/quote][/b


Exactly what I was thinking.  A MASSIVE TORNADO complete with flooding.

You're right, it makes Ivan look like nothing and we all know that it was not nothing.

My heart breaks for those people.