Weather.com - 9/29/12
For the first time in 15 years, we had three consecutive "super typhoons" in the western Pacific Ocean. Jelawat became a super typhoon on Sunday (U.S. time) and remained one through much of Thursday. By Friday morning, Jelawat had weakened and was no longer a super typhoon.
The U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which tracks tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific, uses the term "super typhoon" for a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of at least 150 miles per hour, the equivalent of a high-end Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
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Super Typhoons!
It has been quite a typhoon season here over in Korea - unprecedented! There is some major cleansing of energies going on over here in the Eastern Pacific...it's incredible to watch the storms change course and aim directly for the places that need the most cleansing....