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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan issued a land warning as a powerful typhoon headed toward the island on Wednesday, with the government warning of strong wind and heavy rain that could trigger landslides and flooding in mountain regions. By 0000 GMT, Typhoon Talim was 390 km (244 miles) east-southeast of Hualien on Taiwan's east coast and packing maximum sustained winds of 184 kph (114 mph) and gusts of up to 227 kph (141 mph), the Central Weather Bureau said. Rain was already falling across...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A tropical storm swept ashore in southern China on Saturday bringing heavy rain a week after a typhoon tore up the east coast killing three people and causing havoc. Severe tropical storm Sanvu slapped the Chenghai area of the city of Shantou in Guangdong province with powerful gusts, the 10th such storm to hit the country this year. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. "The storm will move northwestward at an estimated speed of 20 km (12 miles)...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Typhoon Matsa lashed northern Taiwan on Friday with torrential rain and strong winds, forcing schools, government offices and financial markets in capital Taipei to shut. Packing maximum sustained winds of 144 km (89 miles) per hour and gusts up to 180 (112 miles) km per hour, Matsa's center was 180 km (112 miles) east-northeast of Taipei at 8 a.m. (0000 GMT), the Central Weather Bureau said. The medium-strength typhoon was heading north-northwest toward China at 14 km (9...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Southeast China was reeling from the force of Typhoon Haitang on Wednesday, with more than 1 million people forced from their homes and at least one left dead from the heavy rain and lashing winds, state media said. But the storm weakened as it moved inland, sparing much of the mainland the same battering that earlier hit Taiwan, where four were killed and one left missing after the typhoon forced shut schools, offices and financial markets. Pictures showed residents in...
In TAIPEI story headlined "China braces for typhoon as Taiwan hit" please read in second paragraph...gusts of up to 162 km/h... instead of.... gusts of up to 162 mph.... (corrects windspeed unit) TAIPEI (Reuters) - Typhoon Haitang swirled toward China's southeast coast on Tuesday after killing up to four people in Taiwan, injuring 29 others and wreaking damage estimated at $14 million. The once super-strong storm had lost some of its power while churning over the island and is now packing...
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Typhoon Haitang swirled toward China's southeast coast on Tuesday after killing up to four people in Taiwan, injuring 29 others and wreaking damage estimated at $14 million. The once super-strong storm had lost some of its power while churning over the island and is now packing maximum windspeeds of 126 km/h (78 mph) and gusts of up to 162 km/h, making it a moderate typhoon, said Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. But the southeastern Chinese provinces of Fujian and...
By Richard Dobson TAIPEI (Reuters) - China evacuated over 600,000 people from coastal areas on Monday after typhoon Haitang slammed into Taiwan, killing up to four people, injuring 25 and forcing offices, schools and markets to shut across the island. At 1300 GMT, Haitang was packing maximum winds of 144 km/h (89 mph), down from a previous 184 km/h, and gusts of up to 180 km/h, weaker than the earlier 227 km/h, said Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. If the typhoon stays on its present course,...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China evacuated over 600,000 people from southeast coastal areas on Monday, ordered thousands of boats into harbour and mobilized armed police as it nervously braced for the arrival of typhoon Haitang, now pounding Taiwan. Over the strait, high winds and torrential rain injured at least 22 across the island and forced closure of schools, government offices and financial markets. The weakening storm was due to hit the China coast late Monday or Tuesday. Authorities in...
NASA -- El Nino has fascinated people for centuries, and continues to interest people around the world, because it changes global weather patterns. It was named by Peruvian fisherman after the Christ child because the warm waters that appear in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru usually appear in the wintertime before Christmas. Just in time for this Christmas, an index created to see the development of El Nino events received the approval of the scientific community. Scott...
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The Pacific Rim is a reference to places around the edge of Pacific Ocean. The term Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Rim and the islands within the Pacific Ocean. It roughly overlaps with the geologic Pacific Ring of Fire. These countries are generally considered to be a part of the Pacific Rim, since they lie along the Pacific Ocean: North/East Asia Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,...
North America is a continent completely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost completely within the Western Hemisphere. It’s also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It’s bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. This continent covers an area of approximately 9,540,000 sq miles, about 4.8 percent of the plants surface or about...
Honolulu, located in the Pacific Ocean, has a mostly marine time climate and has a pretty consistent temperature average from month to month. This is a look at the La-Nina impacts on the local area. January 2012: For the month of January it is typical to see average high temps in the 80’s while overnight lows drop into the 70’s. During the La-Nina event January temps were normal 71% of the month at the, with above temps 23% of the month and 6% of the month found the temps dropping...
If you look in the photo above you can see the line of Cumulus clouds that appear in the background. These clouds were created by daytime heating and also an unstable atmosphere. The moisture for these clouds was rising from the Pacific Ocean. The darker cloud is the stronger of the cumulus clouds meaning that the majority of the moisture is being absorbed by that cloud. The clouds around this one are also starting to get more moisture from the ocean to build. Above the cumulus clouds you...
The Giant Tube Worm (Riftia pachyptila) is a species of marine invertebrate related to tube worms and commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones. This species lives from a mile to several miles deep underwater, on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near black smokers, where it is able to tolerate extremely high hydrogen sulfide levels. The common name “giant tube worm” is also applied to the largest living species of shipworm, Kuphus polythalamia. Despite given the name...
