Typhoon Haiyan
Atmospheric Science 201
Super Typhoon Haiyan Paper
Backed by support from NASA and many of the other leading weather associations, super typhoon Haiyan is considered the strongest typhoon/hurricane/cyclone in the history of mankind. With wind speeds up to 235 miles per hour, gusts of wind measuring to up to 195 mile per hour at landfall, and a barometric pressure of about 895 mbar, it devastated not only homes, but the lives of the thousands of people living in the Philippines.
This devastating typhoon, strongest to ever make landfall, actually made landfall around 5 a.m. Friday November 8, 2013 in the eastern Philippines region.
On November 2, 2013 Typhoon Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure that was a couple hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei, which is located in the Federated States of Micronesia. The storm was being tracked and was generally westward for the majority of the time. The environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis, which is developmental stage of a typhoon in the atmosphere, and the system later developed into a tropical depression on the next day, November 3, 2013.
The immense strength of the winds making landfall in the Philippines caused major landslides, which in turn knocked out power and communication lines, causing catastrophic and widespread damage all across the Philippines.
Thousands of homes have been flattened and almost every street on the islands was flooded. There were waves crashing into the city of Tacloban in the
Philippines that were 20 feet tall, destroying houses and anything and everything else that was in its way.
With such strong and heavy winds, Typhoon Haiyan is believed to be stronger than the world’s most recent strongest tropical cyclone, Hurricane
Camille. Hurricane Camille hit land in 1969 near the mouth of Mississippi with winds averaging around 190 miles per hour. Typhoon Haiyan is also more catastrophic than the recent Hurricane Sandy, which made
Super Typhoon Haiyan Paper
Backed by support from NASA and many of the other leading weather associations, super typhoon Haiyan is considered the strongest typhoon/hurricane/cyclone in the history of mankind. With wind speeds up to 235 miles per hour, gusts of wind measuring to up to 195 mile per hour at landfall, and a barometric pressure of about 895 mbar, it devastated not only homes, but the lives of the thousands of people living in the Philippines.
This devastating typhoon, strongest to ever make landfall, actually made landfall around 5 a.m. Friday November 8, 2013 in the eastern Philippines region.
On November 2, 2013 Typhoon Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure that was a couple hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei, which is located in the Federated States of Micronesia. The storm was being tracked and was generally westward for the majority of the time. The environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis, which is developmental stage of a typhoon in the atmosphere, and the system later developed into a tropical depression on the next day, November 3, 2013.
The immense strength of the winds making landfall in the Philippines caused major landslides, which in turn knocked out power and communication lines, causing catastrophic and widespread damage all across the Philippines.
Thousands of homes have been flattened and almost every street on the islands was flooded. There were waves crashing into the city of Tacloban in the
Philippines that were 20 feet tall, destroying houses and anything and everything else that was in its way.
With such strong and heavy winds, Typhoon Haiyan is believed to be stronger than the world’s most recent strongest tropical cyclone, Hurricane
Camille. Hurricane Camille hit land in 1969 near the mouth of Mississippi with winds averaging around 190 miles per hour. Typhoon Haiyan is also more catastrophic than the recent Hurricane Sandy, which made