Experimenting with Himawari satellite data. This shows 48 hours of high-frequency infrared imagery of Uwan's intensification on approach to Luzon.

Very large Typhoon Uwan actively making landfall along the central Sierra Madre mountain range. This part of the coast is less densely populated compared to other areas in the Philippines, but heavy rain and gale-force winds will still affect almost all of Luzon. Strong rainbands coming into the NCR

Typhoon #Kalmaegi / #TinoPH has made landfall in central Vietnam after weakening from its earlier peak, yet the system's fast forward motion will still bring dangerous rainfall rather far into the interior SEA mainland.

#Kalmaegi / #TinoPH quickly reorganizing after crossing Palawan, now heading toward central Vietnam where landfall near Quy Nhon is expected overnight Thu-Fri.

Ramping up right before landfall on Leyte. I feel like if given another 6 hours uninterrupted it could drop 20 mb.

#Kalmaegi / #TinoPH is steadily intensifying, but thankfully not particularly quickly. Only a few more hours until it crosses Siargao and the Dinagat Islands.

Last night the storm consisted of two intense competing convective cores which likely slowed consolidation into something uglier.

The eye of Hurricane Melissa at peak intensity captured from the flight deck of a 53rd WRS Hurricane Hunter aircraft.

From @m5murray on IG.

Watching Tropical Storm #Kalmaegi / #TinoPH closely as it heads toward the south/central Philippines. Conditions are always extremely volatile in this subregion at this time of year. Landfall expected in <48h.

Signal No. 1 has been raised for parts of eastern Visayas and far northeast Mindanao.

Have you ever wondered what a 185mph wind really looks like?

This is some of my footage from Hurricane Dorian, taken as it made landfall in the Abaco Islands on September 1, 2019 at that same intensity.

Praying for those in the path of Melissa.

Melissa's eye recently deformed from a circle into a rapidly cyclonically rotating ellipse, which is why I think an eyewall merger is occurring.

I don't know what this means for its intensity.