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Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Pretty amazing!  Difficult to design against typhoons.

BA

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Amazing! I bet the owners neglected to maintain the ballast at the shoreline.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

The one news station said that they had 2m of rain in 24 hours, that is about 80" of rain...

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

It's no more difficult to design against typhoons than it is to design against hurricanes.  This looks like a classic example of soil erosion failure.  They should have had a better seawall, to protect all those structures built along the edge of the river.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Typhoon and hurricane is the same thing, it is just the name that is different.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Isn't a typhoon in the Southern hemisphere, so it has the opposite spin (clockwise)?
Shouldn't make any difference in design, though.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Typhoon and Hurricanes are both Tropical Cyclones. Typhoon is in the name used commonly in the Western Pacific. Hurricane is commonly used in the Atlantic.  

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Typhoon comes from the Japanese language, which is probably used in the western pacific.  Ty meaning great or big and phoon ('fun') meaning wind.  I believe the term is used both in the southern hemisphere and nothern hemisphere.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Saw this mentioned on 'Clash of the Titans' on the History channel that Typhoon was originated from the Greek God Typhon. (I know wikipedia sucks but it was a quick reference)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhon

 

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

I might try to summarise the names given to tropical storms.  Tropical cyclones originate in the doldrums, either side of the equator.  They are normally called hurricanes in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, typhoons in the western Pacific and northern Indian above the equator, and tropical cyclones in the western Pacific and Indian below the equator.  The direction of rotation is counterclockwise in the north, clockwise in the south, regardless of what the storm is called.

Anybody know why there don't seem to be tropical cyclones in the south Atlantic?

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

didn't Catarina form in the south atlantic?

When in doubt, just take the next small step.
 

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

And if it (Katrina) did, did the rotation direction change?

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Right.  I don't even recall that.  It was apparently the first one ever to form in the South Atlantic.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Only reason I remember is this is often used as an argument for codes to change the history approach.  This is often combined with discussions about down thrusts from storms not being handles by the codes very well either.

When in doubt, just take the next small step.
 

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

Sorry rowingengineer, for assuming that you couldn't spell.

RE: Typhoon Topples Taiwan Hotel

No problems apsix, I can't spell! 2thumbsup

When in doubt, just take the next small step.
 

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