Cyclone Maria Explodes into Super Typhoon in 24 hours hours

[Meatpie]

Super Typhoon Maria now ranks among the fastest tropical storm to Category 5 intensification rates on record for a storm in the western Pacific Ocean.

This storm has already placed itself in rare meteorological company. Last year, Hurricane Maria devastated parts of the Caribbean and Puerto Rico as a major Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm was so destructive that it resulted in the name Maria being retired from use for future Atlantic hurricanes.

Now, less than one year later, another major storm named Maria has formed in a completely different ocean basin. Per meteorologist Bob Henson of Weather Underground, only five storms with the same name have reached Category 5 status in different ocean basins. However, all of the other same-named storms were separated by at least seven years. The short time frame between two major storms named Maria is nothing if not noteworthy.

Currently Maria is on a potentially catastrophic collision course with the east coast of China. One city there, Shanghai, has a population of some 24 million people.

According to NOAA’s Hurricane Research Center, the near 100 mph increase in strength over just 24 hours is one of the fastest tropical storm to Category 5 intensification rates on record for a storm in the western Pacific Ocean.

 

[alexonedeath]

Living at the shore ANYWHERE is fast becoming UN-desirable.