PAGASA website down
Posted by cypresstx on 12/4/2014, 4:37 pm
http://www.westernpacificweather.com/2014/12/04/pagasa-website-breaks-down-as-hagupitruby-threatens-phl/

but apparently their twitter & facebook are working - still, very bad timing...


Masters has a new post, here's a bit:

Cat 5 Super Typhoon Hagupit Poised to Hit Philippine Islands Devastated by Haiyan

Super Typhoon Hagupit has exploded into mighty Category 5 storm with 175 mph winds and a central pressure of 905 mb, and is threatening the same portion of the Philippine Islands devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The spiral bands of the massive storm are already bringing gusty winds and heavy rain showers to Samar and Leyte Islands, which bore the brunt of Haiyan's massive storm surge and incredible winds--rated at 190 mph at landfall on November 7, 2013 by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Haiyan killed over 7,000 people in the Philippines, with Tacloban (population 200,000) suffering the greatest casualties, thanks to a 20+' storm surge. Thousands of people still live in tents in Tacloban in the wake of Haiyan, and mass evacuations have begun to get these vulnerable people to safety.


Figure 1. An infrared VIIRS image of Super Typhoon Hagupit from the Suomi satellite at 15:55 UTC December 3, 2014, revealed a structure very similar to that of the standard hurricane symbol (lower right.) At the time, Hagupit was an intensifying Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds. Image credit: Dan Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS/CIRA/Colorado State.
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Super Typhoon HAGUPIT / Ruby, winds reached 150 kts / 172.617 mph... - hanna, 12/4/2014, 2:22 pm
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