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With a name meaning “thunder of God,” Rammasun approached the coast as a category 4 super typhoon and one of the strongest to hit China’s Hainan Province in 41 years. Typhoon* Rammasun . On July 20, 2014, I sent the following email to Shrimp News’s 6,925 registered readers:. According to news reports, winds gusted to 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour in Haikou City, Hainan, a city of 2 million people, and a month’s worth of rain fell in six hours. At that time, the storm was peaking at 80 knots (150 km/h; 92 mph) 1-minute sustained windsBy 00:00 UTC on July 16, Rammasun's eye had re-emerged into the On July 18, Rammasun entered another area of very warm sea-surface temperatures. Chinese meteorologists warned of a storm surge of as much as 6 meters (20 feet). Accessed July 16, 2014. Three days after drenching the central Philippines in flooding rains, Typhoon Rammasun smashed into southeastern China and was still headed for northeastern Vietnam early on July 19, 2014. Shortly before the image was captured, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported sustained winds of 125 knots (140 miles or 230 kilometers per hour) and maximum wave heights of 10 meters (35 feet). Typhoon Rammasun made landfall in Vietnam over the weekend, triggering heavy floods, destroying homes and crops, and blocking roads with landslides, said … Early on July 11, the JTWC reported that the system had intensified into a tropical storm, after they had assessed the intensity slightly higher than the Dvorak estimates from various agencies.Rammasun entered the Philippine area of responsibility and was given a local name, Shortly before its Philippine landfall, Rammasun developed a 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) wide eye. Home • P revious Page • Site Map : Print This Page. The Earth Observatory is part of the Following the closure of maritime seaports, more than 100 passengers were reportedly stranded at the Throughout its devastating journey through southern Luzon, the powerful typhoon barely weakened but instead maintained its strength and even intensified as it made its way across the Bicol Region. The storm had vigorous equatorward and westward outflow. The ninth named storm an Typhoon* Rammasun . (2014, July 16) Typhoon Rammasun heads to China after Manila is spared the worst.

After Lingling and Kajiki earlier in 2014, Rammasun became the third tropical cyclone, and first typhoon to directly impact the Philippines in 2014. Rammasun hit China late last week with winds up to 130 miles per hour -- the strongest typhoon to hit the country in four decades. Typhoon Rammasun, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Glenda, was one of the only two Category 5 super typhoons on record in the South China Sea, with the other one being Pamela in 1954. Rammasun turned northward, passing east of Taiwan and Ch Some features of this site are not compatible with your browser. Accessed July 16, 2014. Typhoon Rammasun, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Florita, was the first of four typhoons to contribute to heavy rainfall and deadly flooding in the Philippines in July 2002.

China. Watch Queue Queue They were reported to have gone out fishing a day ago from the Philippine province of Catanduanes, and failed to return.At least 90% of the total residents of Metro Manila lost power, as poles were toppled and lines downed. More than one million people were without power in Hainan and Guangdong, and hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from low-lying areas.As typically happens when cyclones make landfall, Rammasun broke up a bit and lost strength earlier in the week after passing over the Philippines. The storm tracked northwestward toward Taiwan, and on July 2 it attained its peak intensity with winds of 160 km/h. Such evolution and intensification is a key interest of scientists participating in NASA’s In July 2014, typhoon Rammasun churned toward the Philippines and China. Rammasun is a Siamese word for thunder god. 2014 Typhoon Rammasun 雷馬遜颱風. This video is unavailable. Jeff Masters WunderBlog, via Weather Underground (2014, July 16) Category 3 Typhoon Rammasun hits the Philippines. Xinhua, China's official news agency, reported five people died and 99 were injured after Typhoon Rammasun hit Hainan island Friday and three later … The Vietnamese authorities ordered an evacuation of people from parts of the northern coast of the country on July 18 in preparation for Rammasun.After the system had caused damage to the Philippines, China and Vietnam, the name This article is about the 2014 tropical cyclone. Rammasun had destructive impacts across the Philippines, South China, and Vietnam in July 2014. But then the storm intensified rapidly over the warm waters of the South China Sea. Joint Typhoon Warning Center (2014, July 16) Warning Graphic. Consequently, Rammasun rapidly deepened and was upgraded to a Category 4 super typhoon by the JTWC,On July 10, as the JTWC initiated advisories on the system, the United States Rammasun (known as "Glenda" in the Philippines) was the first typhoon to impact the Philippines in over eight months, the previous being Immediately after the landfall, three fishermen were reported missing. On July 20, 2014, I sent the following email to Shrimp News’s 6,925 registered readers:. China.

For other storms of the same name, see The fifth tropical cyclone of the 2002 Pacific typhoon season, Rammasun developed around the same time as Typhoon Chataan, only further to the west. Accessed July 16, 2014.