Just when you think your greatest achievements are behind you, the best (or worst) may still be ahead. At least that's the case with Super Typhoon Lan, which hit Tokyo over the weekend as a Category 2 storm, and then lost its tropical characteristics while moving out into the North Pacific Ocean.
Yet by Tuesday, the storm had been absorbed into a rapidly developing, non-tropical low pressure system, in an atmospheric corporate merger with maximum synergy. The broader storm then exploded in intensity, feeding off differences in air masses and upper level energy. By Tuesday, the storm enveloped much of the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska. Read more...
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