News DetailSuper Typhoon Saomai heading for China
Posted At: August 9, 2006 @ 2:44 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Hurricanes
Super Typhoon Saomai, a category 5 tropical cyclone by Atlantic Ocean standards, is tracking towards the China coast at 20 mph. The powerful typhoon will make landfall just south of Shanghai around midnight EDT, with the highly populated city of Wenshou (2.5 million) directly in its path. Saomai is packing sustained winds of 160 mph, and was located 150 nm west-southwest of Naha, Okinawa as of 4 pm EDT according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Average wave heights in the vicinity of the storm were reported at 40 feet. The last tropical cyclone of this intensity to make landfall on the U.S. coast was Andrew in 1992 (Katrina was a category 3 at landfall).
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I'm ready to intercept
JY, are you really in China to inercept and document this storm?