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Old August 15th 04, 08:00 AM posted to talk.environment,sci.environment,sci.geo.meteorology,alt.global-warming
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Default 100,000 homes destroyed, at least 115 dead, 1,800 injured as typhoon pounds eastern China

Psalm 110 wrote:
Heads-Up! Killer Heat Wave followed by Killer Typhoon -- Coincidence?
Not at all. Heat is the food that creates and sustains creation of
typhoons, cyclones, huricanes and tornadoes. The powerful updraft
thermals draw in unstable cooler air which condenses the water vapor
contents to rain. Sustained cyles of updrafts reaching high altitude
cool the wet air sufficiently that self-perpetuating storms coalese.


Of course. This explains why the Sahara desert sees nothing but
unrelenting deluge from the permanent monster hurricane parked over the
140° sand dunes.