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Tropical Cyclone Activity Report – Pacific / Indian Oceans

Tropical cyclone Bopha (26W)…remains active over the South Ch
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ina Sea…located approximately 270 NM southwest of Manila, Philippines (Typhoon…75 knot sustained winds – gusts to near 90 knots)

PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation accumulation, typhoon Bopha (26W), with JTWC positions, segments, winds and error cones...over the South China Sea

Typhoon Bopha (26W) has continued to weaken, due to the battering it took…passing across the physical terrain of the southern Philippine Islands. Bopha brought severe weather to the Philippines! This intense typhoon slammed into the east coast of Mindanao early yesterday, destroying homes, and killing more than 270 people…at last count. This was the most powerful typhoon to hit Mindanao Island in over 20 years…coming ashore over the city of Baganga.

Hundreds of people are still missing, while entire villages have been wiped out in the wake of this very powerful typhoon…the strongest to impact anywhere in the Philippine Islands during 2012. Landslides and mudslides swept down from the mountains in many areas, submerging entire towns and villages, according to local media. 87,000 people were evacuated from their homes, ahead of Bopha’s arrival. Crops and trees, power lines were torn down in many areas.

This typhoon has now moved out over the warm waters of the South China Sea, where environmental conditions remain favorable for a minor strengthening phase. Weak steering currents will exist in the South China Sea, and so 26W will slow down its forward motion…becoming nearly stationary. Environmental conditions deteriorate for this system as it slows down however. It will remain a typhoon into the 8th of December, while the JTWC shows Bopha weakening down to the tropical storm classification by the 9th…as it moves very slowly towards the northwest.

Here’s morphed integrated microwave imagery from CIMSS…showing Bopha moving over the southern Philippine Islands, out into the South China Sea.