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Sep 16, 2022, 7 tweets

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Typhoon Muifa lashes eastern China, forcing 1.6 million people from homes sc.mp/o406?utm_sourc… via @scmpnews

@SCMPNews 24 hour satellite loop.

12 hour satellite closer view of Shanghai landfall.

Satellite loop for the next 12 hours. Muifa continues to travel up the coast - and as a result continues to be fed by the warm sea waters. All though down-graded to a tropical storm it is a colossal one, and its main threat is through its rain.

And the 12 hours till now:

After two landfalls, Muifa has delivered well over 36 hours of torrential rains and massive waves along nearly 2000 KMs of Chinese coastline - and is about to make landfall for a third time in Dalian due west of North Korea.

The first image here shows the roughly 1200 km path taken by #Muifa over the last 36 hours.

Typhoon #INFA last year in July caused catastrophic damage on a similar path.

The second image shows the next super typhoon, Nanmadol, forecast tolandfall in Japan on September 18th.

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