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The ocean basin that spawns the strongest storms on Earth had been oddly quiet, but it's making up for its slumber in a big way with Super Typhoon Nepartak.

This storm, which had maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour as of Wednesday morning, is a beast and the first typhoon to churn the western Pacific Ocean in a record 200 days.

At that time, it was as close to a textbook case of an intense typhoon as one typically sees in any season, or even multiple seasons, and it illustrates how these storms grow and sustain themselves by feasting on the energy drawn from a deep reservoir of warm ocean waters.  Read more...

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