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English: Once a powerful Super Typhoon, Parma crossed over the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines, on October 3, 2009, as a Category 1 typhoon. The storm battered the island with damaging winds and heavy rain before moving over the South China Sea, where it stalled, spinning more or less in place for about a day and a half. On October 6, the storm reversed direction and moved southeast back over Luzon. What caused this change in direction? The answer is shown in this true color image from October 6. The powerful Super Typhoon Melor moved close enough to Parma to influence its motion.
When two cyclones approach one another, they can interact in a variety of ways. One interaction is the Fujiwara Effect, in which the two storms are drawn together and begin to circle around each other. In this case, Parma was drawn towards the stronger Melor. Occasionally, the stronger storm will absorb the weaker storm, but that fate wasn't in the forecast for Parma as of October 6. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center expected Parma to move south away from Melor and eventually track west over the South China Sea on October 8. This image blends two satellite overpasses to show the proximity of the two storms to one another. The left half of the image, containing Tropical Storm Parma, is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite, acquired at 10:35 a.m., Philippine time. The right half of the image was taken just under two hours later (Philippine time) by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. The time difference causes the subtle differences in lighting from one side of the image to the other. Parma left at least 22 people dead and damaged millions of dollars of crops and infrastructure in floods and landslides across northern Luzon as of October 6, reported Reuters. The storm is likely to do more damage as it tracks slowly south over the island, pouring heavy rain. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center expected Melor to come ashore over Japan early on October 8 (local time) as a weak Category 1 typhoon. At the time of these satellite overpasses, Tropical Storm Parma had sustained winds of about 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour or 55 knots), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The storm maintains a spiral shape, but no longer has the tightly packed bands of clouds exhibited by the much stronger Typhoon Melor. At 12:10 Philippine time, Melor had sustained winds of about 200 km/hr (130 mph or 115 knots), making it a Category 4 typhoon. 1. Mogato, M. (2009, October 6). Typhoon heads to Japan, storm stall over Philippines. Reuters, published in Washington Post. Accessed October 6, 2009. 2. Unisys Weather. (2009, October 6). Super Typhoon-5 Melor. Accessed October 6, 2009.3. Unisys Weather. (2009, October 6). Super Typhoon-4 Parma. Accessed October 6, 2009. |
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This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 13 April 2014. It was captioned as follows: English: Once a powerful Super Typhoon, Parma crossed over the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines, on October 3, 2009, as a Category 1 typhoon. The storm battered the island with damaging winds and heavy rain before moving over the South China Sea, where it stalled, spinning more or less in place for about a day and a half. Other languages:
Bosanski: Tajfun Parma je prešao preko ostrva Luzon na Filipinima 3. oktobra 2009. godine, da bi zatim prešao u Južno Kinesko more gdje se virtualno zaustavio na jednom području, vrteći se oko dan i po. English: Once a powerful Super Typhoon, Parma crossed over the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines, on October 3, 2009, as a Category 1 typhoon. The storm battered the island with damaging winds and heavy rain before moving over the South China Sea, where it stalled, spinning more or less in place for about a day and a half. Italiano: Il tifone Parma, ha investito le Filippine il 3 ottobre 2009 e successivamente si è spostato nel Mar Cinese Meridionale dove ha rallentato perdendo forza. Magyar: A Parma névre keresztelt hatalmas szupertájfun 2009 október 3-án áthaladt a Fülöp-szigeteki Luzon sziget északi csúcsán. Miután lecsapott a szigetre, a Dél-kínai-tenger felé vette az irányt ahol megrekedt Nederlands: De eens sterke tropische cycloon Parma ging op 3 oktober 2009 als tyfoon van de categorie 1 over het noordelijke punt van het eiland Luzon van de Filipijnen, waarna hij over de Zuid-Chinese Zee trok. 日本語: 平成21年台風第17号(左)と台風第18号(右)(2009年10月6日撮影)。2つの台風の間で藤原効果が発生し、台風第17号は約1週間ルソン島付近に停滞して大きな影響を与えた。台風第18号もその後日本に上陸し、広い範囲に被害をもたらした。 中文: 2009年10月3日,超级台风超强台风芭玛掠过菲律宾北端吕宋岛。 |
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