snobee 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Now this one is sure THE MOTHER. Skin of the teeth the last few. Looking out the window it's almost Kamisama time. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 No, actually this one is the TOKAGE . Fortunately it's been downgraded from '超大型' to merely '大型'. It's not too bad here at the moment, apart from really heavy rain. Hang in there snobee mate. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 You guys have really copped it this year. Guess we'll cop it up my way tonite. Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 O-11 - The LIZARD sure aint downgraded here. More like an upgrade to NORSE DRAGON. I can see the scales and talons flashing past the window. All work cancelled today, so mouthing a few glasses of red - you know Dutch Courage in the face of all possibilities. Link to post Share on other sites
connackers 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 It must be tearing you apart down there, it`s pretty damn fierce here! Apparantly there`s another one building at the moment... Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 so have they finally gone along with the rest of the world now and naming them? Link to post Share on other sites
connackers 0 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 yep, the next one`s named `24` Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 I think its a master stroke in naming. Come on, giving them human names is just silly isn't it. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 24 is coming this Sat/Sun right? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Not another weekend, please. I bet the umbrella making people are doing well. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 tell me about it... Its been raining soo much on the weekends Link to post Share on other sites
Honest John 0 Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 All of this has been on the tv over here even. looks terrible. have any of the people on here been affected badly? Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted October 23, 2004 Author Share Posted October 23, 2004 Indo - yeh the naming is pretty interesting. All the 14 countries in the west pacific typhoon zone submitted 10 names each and as from Jan 1st. 2000 these names have been used. Once the 140 names have been used up they return to the start again. Almost all the names are of things existing in nature - rocks, mountains, birds, flowers, animals etc very unlike the other tropical cyclone zones which exclusively use male & female names. Japan, altho submitting 10 names, continues to use the # system except for flights, shipping & the like. Maybe the powers to be think ordinary Japanese can't handle such a big cerebal shift. Apparently the section of the World Meteoroligical Organization responsible for overseeing all such stuff for the west pacific is based in Tokyo, which makes the not using of such names a little baffling. But greater mysteries abound here - eh? Ironically this last beast of a typhoon, Tokage, is Japanese. # 24 now hovering south of Okinawa is called Nock-ten - Laotian for bird. Hopefully it flies far away. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 It seems we have a typhoon called "Longwang" uncoiling itself in the Pacific. I wonder from which wonderful Asian language that evocative word sprouts. Link to post Share on other sites
Siren 0 Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1577750,00.html At first I thought it was 600mm! Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Bring it on ... had excellent waves again for the last one. Getting tubed in Shonan? Now how often does that happen!? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by NPM: Bring it on ... had excellent waves again for the last one. Getting tubed in Shonan? Now how often does that happen!? Pretty often on a typhoon NPM! Where did ya end up surfing? I haven't been out for ages and am frothing to get out this week. Bring it on! Link to post Share on other sites
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