Current mood:

nerdy

Hurray hurricane season! Tropical Storm Fay is heading towards where I am, in coastal central Florida. I've gone through this before, but not in Florida -- I weathered Hurricane Isabel in Virginia in '03, and the flooding with Gaston a year later (why those bastards didn't retire the name is beyond me, it left plenty of damage).

I got bored tonight and wondered, what was the largest and/or most powerful tropical cyclone on record? Hint: It's not Katrina or Wilma (though Wilma's officially #2)

It's Super Typhoon Tip, with 190 MPH winds. Think about that thing hitting the mainland. In fact, if theoretically, we placed it in the Atlantic and had it heading towards the mainland, it would have made an impact long before it made landfall -- it was more than a third of the size of the continental U.S.

All right. Enough nerd talk for now. :P