1978 Pacific Typhoon Season Animation

1978 in the Western Pacific was a fairly average season, but only featured one Category 5 - but it was a big one! Rita peaked at winds of 185mph and a pressure of 878mb, one of the lowest pressures ever recorded - and it held this enormous intensity for quite a long time. The East China Sea saw more storms than average enter the area, most as a typhoon.

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[DoiInthanon]

5:02 When you hear that music, you know something's about to happen (like a Category 5)

[juliusnepos]

Typhoon Atang (Olive) was also a devastating storm in the Philippines and was the first A named storm to be the retired, though he name Olive was not retired along with it. It is the only A named storm to be retired on the Philippines until Ambo (Vongfong) of last year

[sillysilas]

1978, one of the craziest years officially by depression count, and featured Rita, one of the most intense TC’s in history.

[koto]

TIMESTAPS FOR THOSE WHO NEEDS IT! 2
0:00 Intro
0:11 Nadine (01W)
0:35 Olive (02W)
1:14 Polly (03W)
1:29 Rose (04W)
1:40 Shirley (05W)
1:49 Trix (06W)
2:16 Virginia (07W)
2:18 Wendy (08W)
2:23 Agnes (09W)
2:54 Bonnie (10W)
2:56 Carmen (11W)
2:57 Della (12W)
3:21 13W
3:29 Elaine (14W)
3:42 Faye (15W)
3:46 Gloria & Hester (16W & 17W)
4:17 Irma (18W)
4:18 Judy (19W)
4:38 Kit (20W)
4:44 Lola (21W)
5:00 Mamie (22W)
5:15 Nina (23W)
5:20 Ora (24W)
5:35 25W
5:40 Phyllis (26W)
5:41 Rita (27W)
6:25 Tess (28W)
6:36 Viola (29W)
6:36 30W
6:59 Winnie (31W)
7:07 Season Summary
7:22 Storm List (F13 Analysis)
7:47 Strongest Landfalls
7:52 Deadliest Storms
7:59 Costliest Storms (1978 USD)
8:06 The End :D

[AdamSmith-gsdv]

Rita must just be a cursed name, I mean a cat 5 typhoon and a cat 5 hurricane? How?!

[Astervius]

5:45
If anyone needs a formation timestamp for Rita

[xzchaser]

Rita had an reputation of being an category 5 in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans

[juliusnepos]

Oh yes, excited for Super Typhoon Kading (intl. known as Rita)

[kyle]

5:03
Phil: why
Japan: what
Rita: hello Phil
Phil: uh oh

[tropicalcyclone]

I thought this was 1979 for a second and got really exited. Still, I am exited for one of the many category 5 Ritas

[kylerrabaya]

Rita is very underestimated, it had great environmental conditions. Considering the recon gaps, and found pressures below 880mbar on all of them, it’s safe to say that this reached over 200mph

[cosmicnature]

Atlantic beasts like Irma, Wilma, Rita, and Sally were all WPAC beasts way back to the year of anglicized names over the basin until year 2000.

[deanielperez]

Super Typhoon Rita (Kading) is the strongest storm of the season. It is also the wettest tropical cyclone in the PH history with over 400 mm of rain.

[MatthewMBYT]

Awesome animation I like the glow effect on cat 5 with Keep up the good

[clash]

5:23 ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA







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[NorthAmerica]

It is crazy how the season had 63 tropical depressions officially.

[kyle]

Rita 72: In Stronk i want to do it Agaian
Rita 78: Lol bye Phil
Rita 05: Destruction Time 😡😡😡😡😡😡






Kyrios: Lol

[gabrielachilles]

Typhoon rita strikes again after looping around as a fluctuating category 2 typhoon back in 1972

[williammorris]

Rita reminds me of Mangkhut because it stayed as a Category 5 for a very long time and also hit The Philippines.

[Egcgamingtech]

Fun Fact: Rita also affected Hong Kong with gale-force wind, but HKO denied signal 8.