From science writer Ned Rozell: Alaska megastorms and East Coast hurricanes — both destructive, but very different types of natural disasters
The storm named Merbok as it encountered the western Alaska coast on Sept. 17, 2022, compared to Hurricane Ian as it bore down on Florida on Sept. 28, 2022. Both states are sized to scale.
Hal parked his car on the third level of a concrete parking garage — his favorite wind-and-storm-surge-resistant shelter during these events. Hurricane Ian was then rotating toward Hal and millions of others on the west coast of Florida. A typhoon is a hurricane that forms over the western Pacific Ocean. Both hurricane and typhoon refer to a mass of clouds and thunderstorms rotating above tropical or subtropical waters.
Merbok then grew into an eyeless monster as it drifted out of tropical latitudes. It was no longer a typhoon by the time it crossed onto the Bering Sea near the Aleutian island of Shemya, said University of Alaska climate specialist Rick Thoman. He explained: “Shortly before transition, Typhoon Merbok had storm-force winds extending about 100 miles southeast of the center. In contrast, as ex-Merbok passed west of the Pribilof , the storm-force winds extended 300 miles southeast of the center.
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