WATCH OUT, HONG KONG: Here's Why Typhoons Are So Dangerous
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Like hurricanes, typhoons form from warm surface water in the ocean, high atmospheric instability, high humidity, the creation of a low pressure center from the Coriolis effect, and a low vertical wind shear.
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1. High winds - typhoons have sustained winds greater than 70 miles per hour. Super typhoons aren't officially on Japan's scale, but colloquially are known to have 120 mile-per-hour sustained winds - similar to a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.
2. Lots of rain - record-breaking Typhoon Morakot landed in Taiwan in 2009 and dumped more than 90 inches of rain in the Southern regions. Usagi is supposed to dump about 3 feet of rain in Taiwan.
3. They can cause
Here's a map of tracks from all the tropical depressions, storms, and typhoons in the pacific from 1980 to 2005:
Most typhoons hit the Philippines, but typhoons are at their deadliest when they strikeThe deadliest was in 1975 when Typhoon Nina caused a flood and 12 reservoirs failed, killing 100,000 in China alone.
This map shows when the Typhoon is expected to weaken and make landfall over the weekend. The expected position of the storm is shown at 6:00 GMT for each day, which is 2:00 a.m. EDT :
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