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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 13:09:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   I was probably wrong in 2022, and the T10 I was remembering was 2018's Typhoon Mangkhut. When you're already at the highest rating, there's a difference between a T10 and a T10. In 2017, Hato was the strongest typhoon since 1983, but in 2018, Mangkhut was stronger. I believe Mangkhut was the one that wrecked the promenade.

   #TyphoonMangkhut

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_…

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 13:09:37 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @musicman It's the Hong Kong Observatory's own system, introduced in the early 20th century with several revisions until the 1970s.

     There is an international rating, but I'm not familiar with how it works.

     The HKO typhoon warning rating is directly tied to institutional responses:

     T1 is triggered by the distance to a typhoon from Hong Kong and is a warning only, no particular operational response.

     T3, T8 and T10 are tied to wind speeds and cause certain institutions and businesses to shut down, go into mobilization, etc.

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kon…

   • Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis] (musicman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 13:09:40 UTC Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

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     @clacke I had no idea Typhoons had a different rating system than hurricanes. I assume this is historical but maybe not?

   • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 20:06:01 UTC Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]
     @clacke @musicman Thanks for the explanation. I'll share that with Grandson_3 when I get back home.
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 20:06:03 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     @lnxw37j1 Big fan of workplace regulation, civil society disaster preparedness and/or meteorology?

     @musicman

   • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 20:06:08 UTC Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]
     @clacke @musicman The five year old is a big fan of meteorology. Particularly hurricanes (and their other-names equivalents), direchos, and tornadoes.
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 20:06:09 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw37j1 @musicman Then he'll be happy to know that a T10 typhoon has sustained wind speeds at 118 km/h or higher, and we have on average one every four years.