Getting reports that the worst of Haikui was in the eye-wall of the back-half. That's unusual. Most typhoons i've experienced, the front half was much worse. Quite often it's all but over as soon as the eye crosses.

This, i guess, was due to the centre of the eye going in over Dong He, with Dulan in the eye, but 10k south, meaning the wind was coming more from the south east than the north east, as it usually does.

Places exposed to the north-east, that are used to bearing the brunt of typhoons, didn't get hammered as bad this time (though still hammered), whereas places exposed to the south east got hit a lot worse than they normally would.