James Stewart
speaker
4,486 appearances
22 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 6d ago
James Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Vast towering cumulonimbus clouds form, the king of clouds as they're known.
These release latent heat which warms the surrounding air and makes it rise even faster.
Meanwhile, down below on the ocean's surface, a low-pressure zone or depression is created.
This triggers a cluster of thunderstorms, creating a tropical disturbance, the messy, unorganized version of a typhoon.
And this is where things become really impressive or terrifying, but you know what I mean.
As the air rushes in to fill the low-pressure void, the Coriolis effect, the force of the rotation of the Earth, starts to spin this column of air, creating a giant feedback loop.
More warm, moist air, more fuel, more thunderstorms.
Spiralling winds accelerate inwards and upwards.
When they hit 62 km per hour, you've got yourself a tropical storm.
When they reach 119 km per hour, a distinctive eye will form.
And then things get very scary indeed.
In the Northwest Pacific, you'd be facing down a typhoon.
And in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, for some reason, it stays as a tropical cyclone, whatever the wind speed.
But all of these are essentially the same thing, just with different, scarier names.
And the Dragon's Triangle is deep in the heart of...
Typhoon Ali.
More typhoons form here than anywhere else in the world.
These storm systems can be 480 kilometres to 640 kilometres wide and 8 to 10 kilometres high.
They tend to be bigger and last longer than hurricanes, travelling up to 5,000 kilometres and lasting up to a month.
A mature typhoon can generate around 1.5 trillion watts of kinetic energy.
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