Sunrise over Typhoon Fung-Wong as it approaches Luzon Island in the northern Philippines. It is at least a category 3 equivalent storm and should make landfall in about 12 hours or so. My earlier post about the storm: open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Typhoon #Kalmaegi has intensified to the equivalent of a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. It will be making landfall in the next several hours over central Vietnam.

It is pretty amazing how rapidly #Melissa is reorganizing in the hours it has between Jamaica and Cuba.

Just in case anyone was starting to think that this latest stall in #Melissa might mean it's not going to come north, this water vapor loop shows why we remain confident that it will start coming north/northeast soon. Intense upper level trough digging across FL should "pick it up" soon.