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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
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 Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: The Nari storm |
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Are you guys ready for this baby : http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200712.html ?
It looks like a Cat 1 tropical storm is going to hit us straight on in the mid-south of the peninsula. The rain is heavy already here close to Daejeon.
I, for one, love these things. As long as nobody dies. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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We got intermittant sprinkles here in Seungnam starting around 1:30 this afternoon, but along about 7 tonight it decided to get down to being a serious rain. At dinner tonight the group ooohed and ahhhhed a few times when it really poured. It's been raining (real rain) ever since.
It's kind of a nice rain sound--better than that drizzle we had most of the month. |
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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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jay-shi
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| It looks like a Cat 1 tropical storm |
You are getting your terminology confused. A "tropical storm" is by definition not a "Cat 1."
This is not semantic nitpicking. It is how the strength of the hurricane/typhoon is measured.
Typhoon Nari is currently a Category 4 typhoon, an extremely powerful storm with winds of 140 mph. It would be devastating over land.
A Category 1 hurricane/typhoon is the lowest strength. Here you will typically get minor wind damage, such as tree limbs broken off, some trees uprooted if the soil is saturated with water, some minor damage to buildings. The greatest potential damage is from flooding, if the storm moves slowly and dumps a lot of water.
A "tropical storm" is the rating below a Category 1 hurricane/typhoon. As you can see, that's 39-73 mph. There would be little wind damage, but the potential for flooding.
You need to get to Cat 2 and above to get the classic hurricane wind damage situation.
My guess is the storm is expected to weaken as it moves into cooler more northerly waters. That's the forecast in the 5-day track. But the map of water temperatures does not seem to show significantly cooler temperatures south of Korea. It might not weaken as much as predicted.
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
Also remember that hurricanes/typhoons by their nature are unpredictable, at least historically. Computer models used for tracking in the Atlantic have improved significantly in the past decade; I don't know how reliable they are here.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock position on the storm, which swirls counterclockwise, is generally the strongest. Once it hits land, the winds weaken.
This is my first such storm in Korea. I wonder whether there will be power outages? I guess there will be damage to crops, such as rice and figs.
Anyone have more experience in these matters? |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| So...uh...am I going to get stuck in Seoul this weekend if I come? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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for the record...
the rains and lightning storms that have been here this week and throughout today have NOTHING to do with typhoon Nari
not even the edge of the typhoon has come near the peninsula yet
what we have now came from the mainland (from the west, southwest)
whereas what's coming sunday is curving up from the south, southeast
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| oneofthesarahs wrote: |
| So...uh...am I going to get stuck in Seoul this weekend if I come? |
Too late...bye! |
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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| BTW, I finally figured out how to find the weather report on CNN. Tape the channel for an hour, rewind, and fast forward through all the other rubbish. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| oneofthesarahs wrote: |
| So...uh...am I going to get stuck in Seoul this weekend if I come? |
It is expected to travel just east of Jeju then make landfall somewhere west of Masan on the 17th.
It might be nasty down bewtween Gwangju and Masan but most of us won't see anthing other than a rainy day or two out of it.
Unlike the southern US (flat like Florida) the mountains tend to take the steam (and water) out of of a tropical storm / typhoon rather quickly after landfall. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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typhoon Nabi
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Wasn't Nabi a few years ago?
[img]http//icons.wunderground.com/data/images/wp200712.gif[/img]
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Nari, of course. Nabi was the phoney typhoon of '05, hyped because of its size in the ocean but it was predicted to be downsized to a tropical storm by the time it hits land, and indeed it did, despite Korean media hype to the contrary.
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| It might be nasty down bewtween Gwangju and Masan |
 ... my town is EXACTLY half way between Gwangju and Masan, 90 minutes from each, at the border between Gyeongsangnamdo and Jeollanamdo.
Fortunately it's going to be only a tropical storm by the time it hits here, not even a lowest category (1) typhoon.
Nothing like the real typhoon, Maemi, of a few years ago ('04).
More like the so-called 'supertyphoon Nabi' ('05) that died before it hit the peninsula. |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| flummuxt wrote: |
jay-shi
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| It looks like a Cat 1 tropical storm |
You are getting your terminology confused. A "tropical storm" is by definition not a "Cat 1." |
Yes, I was thinking about that just last night at my friends house after I made the post. I guess i wasn't cut out to be a meteorologist. Though from the prediction map now it only looks like well be getting a tropical storm. Thanks for your clarification. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| oneofthesarahs wrote: |
| oneofthesarahs wrote: |
| So...uh...am I going to get stuck in Seoul this weekend if I come? |
Too late...bye! |
She was never seen again.
But the hobos at Seoul Station were looking well-fed for weeks afterwards... |
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atomic42
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Location: Gimhae
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| You guys got hobos? Send 'em south! Please! |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| atomic42 wrote: |
| You guys got hobos? Send 'em south! Please! |
You'll see them come the next crackdown. Don't worry. |
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atomic42
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| From your fingers to God's eyes. |
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