The Missing Typhoon

 There's a typhoon taking place right now in the Philippines that they are calling Goni.

Sometimes I open the website windy.com to have a look at the winds during these powerful storms. Yesterday I tried looking for this storm on the windy website but it wasn't showing up on the interactive winds map. There was a depression but no strong winds anywhere nearby. No big deal I guess but odd, strange...

So here I am awake in the middle of the night and the headlines are about how big and powerful this storm is right now so again, over to windy.com, sweep over to the Philippines and voila! Absolutely nothing, no strong winds, no swirl of a storm, nothing.

Well OK, windy.com isn't the only source for weather. Let's check The Weather Channel, open up the radar map, zoom out and sweep over to the Pacific and zoom in on the Philippines and...

nada... nothing, no rain, no storm, nothing even though The Weather Channel is running a current news article about how bad the storm is in areas of the Philippines with videos and tracking maps and everything.

I'm just pointing this out. I'm not commenting any further.

Half an hour later

I must have spoken too soon. Windy.com is now showing the typhoon over the Phillipines. The Weather Channel still shows nothing on their interactive radar map. At sea level the strongest winds on windy.com are just under fifty knots although at altitude there are stronger winds, 2,500 feet winds in the lower eighty knot range.