Typhoon FITOW Forces Hundreds of Thousands of Evacuations
Posted by feww on October 6, 2013
FITOW Slamming China
China’s meteorological agency issued a red alert for storm surges earlier on Sunday as Typhoon FITOW neared the country’s southeast coastal areas.
On Saturday the agency issued a “Red Alert,” the country’s highest in its weather warning system, for the typhoon.
Typhoon FITOW. SW/IR Satellite Image recorded at 15:32UTC on October 6, 2013. Source: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
FITOW FURY
Original caption: Frontier defense soldiers encounter high waves caused by Typhoon Fitow in Wenling City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Oct. 6, 2013. China’s meteorological authority issued a red alert on Sunday as Typhoon Fitow approaches the country’s southeast coastal areas. (Xinhua/Jia Ce). More images…
FITOW FURY. Waves intensified by TY FITOW slam the nortehrn coastline of of Keelung, Taiwan, Sunday October 6, 2013. (Photo: Xinhua/Wu Ching-teng)
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Lin said
How is it possible that you guys can publish disaster stats a day, even a week or longer, before the figures are released by the officials?
Do you come from a parallel universe? Are you time travelers? or do you have a crystal ball?
feww said
ALL of the above 😉
We rely on powerful models that forecast geophysical, climatic, weather, population and socioeconomic events/disasters and evaluate extent of the damage, when it occurs.
Sometimes, the models influence the outcome, but you’ll have to work that one out by yourself.