Hagupit's 12th-level wind circle made landfall in Gamai, northeast corner of Samar Island, about 120 kilometers south of Catanduanes Island, at about 1:00 p.m. on the evening of June 29. At this time, Hagupit was not yet considered to have made a real landfall, because according to the definition of a typhoon making landfall, it is considered a real landfall only when the eye of a typhoon makes landfall.
The radius of Hagupit's level 12 wind circle is about 100 kilometers, so it will take another five hours for the eye of Hagupit to actually land.
However, Hagupit's Category 12 wind circle did not weaken after landing, and continued to move toward the northwest at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.
The landing of a super typhoon is a very terrifying thing. Even if the real core of the typhoon has not yet landed, and only the twelve-level wind circle begins to land, the momentum caused is extremely terrifying.
The violent storm was raging wildly around everything. The dense raindrops hit the wooden boards outside the doors and windows, as dense as the sound of horses' hooves when thousands of troops were advancing. The strong wind brought with it a strange whistling sound, turning the area into a ghost den. This sound was extremely scary, and the timid ones would probably have a heart attack.
The most terrifying thing is the super storm surge brought by strong winds.
Although this storm surge was not as spectacular as yesterday's tsunami, it was equally powerful. This day happened to coincide with an astronomical tide, so driven by the moon's gravity and strong winds, the coastal areas of several islands in the eastern Philippines were hit by huge waves of more than ten meters, and the height of the storm surge exceeded seven meters.
This storm surge once again brought baptism to the coastal areas that had just experienced a tsunami, but it didn't matter. As the saying goes, "too many lice to fear"; yesterday's tsunami had destroyed everything that could be destroyed, and the remaining things that could not be destroyed could not be destroyed by this storm surge.
But this storm surge was not a one-time deal like a tsunami. This storm surge lasted for the entire day.
At around 6 o'clock in the evening, the storm not only did not decrease but became larger, which means that the core of Hagupit is very close to the Philippines.
At around six o'clock in the evening, when Yang Jing and Gege were having dinner, they were sitting at the dining table eating bread. The violent storm suddenly stopped without any warning, as if an invisible hand in the sky had wiped Hagibis off the earth. Even the sun, which had rarely appeared in the past three or four days, came out, and there was silence everywhere.
Gege was stunned for a moment, then shouted in surprise: "Yang Jing, is the typhoon completely over?"
Yang Jing smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Wife, don't be naive, the typhoon has not passed at all, on the contrary, this is the real landing of the typhoon!"
"Ah? Now is the real landing of the typhoon?"
"Yes, this situation is actually caused by the eye of the storm. In other words, we are now in the eye of Hagupit."
Before Yang Jing finished speaking, Chris and the others pushed the door open and walked in. "Boss, the eye of the storm is here. We are in the eye of the storm now. Hagupit has officially landed."
Gege asked puzzledly: "What is the eye of the storm? How can this happen in such a strong typhoon?"
Yang Jing stuffed the half piece of bread in his hand into his mouth, drank a sip of water, and then explained while gesturing: "You should know that typhoons are rotating, right?"
Gege nodded.
"Typhoons and hurricanes are both tropical cyclones, and tropical cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere." Yang Jing gestured a counterclockwise circle. "As a tropical cyclone rotates, a hole is created in the center. In this hole, the air pressure is much lower than outside, but the weather is very stable in other aspects. This hole is the eye of the tropical cyclone, just like the center of a vortex."
"Oh, I see. When I used to watch the weather forecast, I often saw a black spot in the center of those typhoons or tropical storms. That black spot is the eye of the storm, right?"
"Very correct." Yang Jing nodded with satisfaction. "The eye of a tropical storm is roughly circular, with a diameter usually between a few and a few kilometers. Surrounding the eye is the eyewall, which some people also call the eyewall. It is a ring-shaped area of severe thunderstorms. The eyewall is the area with the worst climate in a tropical cyclone. The eye surrounded by the eyewall is the most stable area in the entire tropical cyclone. We are now in the eye of Hagupit!"
As a super typhoon, the radius of Hagupit's level 12 wind circle is as high as more than 100 kilometers. So more than five hours after the level 12 wind circle landed at around 1:00 p.m., Hagupit, which had been moving northwest by northwest, finally landed on Catanduanes Island with its eye.
Now, the eye of Super Typhoon Hagupit is looming over Yang Jing and his team's heads.
"Yang Jing, can we go out and take a look? The diameter of the eye of the storm is so large, even if we get through it, it will take at least an hour, right? Can we take this opportunity to go out and get some fresh air?"
Yang Jing was a little moved by Gege's words. To be honest, he had never seen what the eye of a typhoon looked like. Now he finally had a chance to see the scenery inside the eye of a typhoon. If he went out and brag about it to his buddies, he could brag about it for years.
Chris and the others had never seen such a scene before, and they were all very excited.
"Okay! It's just about going out! What's the big deal? Let's go out and take a look. The main door of the villa is sealed from the inside anyway, so we can just move the things blocking the main door away."
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