Typhoon Krathon - wrap around effect (Weather)

by dulan drift ⌂, Tuesday, October 01, 2024, 21:02 (17 days ago) @ dulan drift

This version of the windy website on CWB (now CWA) shows the 'wrap-around effect' in full swing. Funny how the wind finds a way - some of it is cutting straight across central Taiwan (the path you'd expect it to take in a roughly circular typhoon shape), but a lot of it is taking the long way around to get a smoother path across water whilst still rotating around the eye of the storm. This also allows it to keep picking up moisture.

There's even an eddy forming within the overall structure off the coast of Miaoli in the north west that's got it's own thing going.

As the image suggests, it's the east coast that's continuing to cop the brunt of the rain - already up to 300mm in the south today. That's only gonna intensify in the next couple of days.

Meanwhile, there's virtually no rain in Kaohsiung, so far. That will change obviously, but it's still getting protection from the central range at this stage.

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Currently, there's a serious looking band of rain pouring into Dulan, Dong He. That could be one of the torrential bursts that starts moving mountains.

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