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2007-04-27 08:28:29 · 5 answers · asked by Torisama K 2 in Science & Mathematics Weather

Please be detailed in your answers

2007-04-27 09:07:46 · update #1

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The biggest tropical cyclone ever was Super Typhoon tip located in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

it hit Japan but had weaken greatly by landfall

2007-04-28 16:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin B 4 · 0 0

It really all depends upon your timescale!

For certain periods of Earth's history, Super-hurricanes were almost certainly commonplace, and so intense in fact, as to be possible candidates for some of the many mass extinction events that have always ravaged our highly active planet.

So the "true" answer to this excellent question is that: nobody knows!

Super-hurricanes rage, 'typically', for 'decades' and Earth has undoubtedly experienced these in her very long and turbulent history. You can read about them in books like "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson (excellent).

But if you REALLY do mean "EVER" . . . then, perhaps you can do no better than to train your telescope on the planet Jupiter, NOW! Where, for as long as us puny humans have been able to tell (and almost certainly, have been in existence for) the most 'Super' of super-hurricanes (in-the-land-of-'Super'-hurricanes) has been raging! [Odd grammar courtesy: Yahoo!]

It is usually referred to as "The Great Spot"! (Good eh?)

As for really "EVER": rest assured, even this will be as nothing compared to the hurricanes of the earlier 'days' of our turbulent solar system. Earth no exception.

The only thing that is FOR CERTAIN, in any answer to your question, is that the largest ever hurricane "EVER" most certainly did not occur while humans (much less the Meteorological Office) were around to observe or record it.

[Well you did say: "Ever"!]

2007-04-28 18:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by Girly Brains 6 · 0 0

In the Atlantic it was Hurricane Wilma in 2005, although when it hit Florida it was only a category 2. In the Pacific it was Super Typhoon Tip in the 70s. That storm still holds the world record for the lowest surface pressure recorded, and it was about 1600 miles in diameter.

2007-04-28 00:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by weathermanpeter 2 · 0 0

all you need to know, straight from the experts:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

2007-04-27 16:01:33 · answer #4 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0 0

i can teel u cc

2007-04-29 03:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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