Twin storms Damrey and Saola near coast of China
Typhoon Damrey (top) and tropical storm Saola (bottom) at 2:30 p.m. EDT (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies)Double trouble. Typhoon Damrey and tropical storm Saola are both making landfall in mainland China.
Damrey, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (equivalent to a category 1 hurricane), is coming ashore this afternoon (EDT) innorthern Jiangsu.
To the south, Saola, with maximum sustained winds of around 50 mph, is forecast to drift across the Taiwan straight before moving inland near Fuzhou around 8 p.m. EDT, says theJoint Typhoon Warning Center.
The main hazard from these storms is torrential rain.
Tuesday evening (10 p.m. EDT), both Damrey (top) and Saola (bottom) had reach typhoon intensity. Soala has weakened some since. ( NASA )Incredibly, Saola dumped a jaw-dropping 70 inches of rain over three days in one location as it crossed northern and western Taiwan AccuWeather says.Voice of America reports Saola has already been blamed for four deaths there.
In the Philippines, Saola killed 23 people says Al-Jazeera.
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By: satyrikon on August 2, 2012
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The Atlantic is not at rest either TS Ernesto currently east of Barbados with fifty mile per hour winds is forecasted to develop into a Hurricane force storm as it moves westward between South America and Puerto Rico. It should be at seventy-five miles per hour hurricane strength as it moves past and south of Jamica on it’s path toward the Yucatan Peninsula and move on-shore in that area around 8 August. After it crosses that small amount of land it will enter the Gulf of Mexico and most likely strengthen it’s future course is unknown with any degree of certainty for now.
By: CW Rice on August 2, 2012
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