James Stewart
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first heard Apr 2025
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That's nearly 20% of the world's total energy generating capacity.
The World Meteorological Organization estimates nearly 780,000 people have been killed by tropical cyclones in just the last 50 years alone.
But these storms are not new.
They've been around for centuries.
The kamikaze divine winds that destroyed the Kublai Khan's invasion fleet in the 13th century?
Well, these were most likely typhoons.
One contemporary account observed that the destruction of the 1281 invasion fleet was so utter and complete that, to quote, a person could walk across from one point of land to another on a mass of wreckage.
And there's plenty of evidence to suggest that the 1957 disappearance of the USAF C-97 Stratofreighter was also down to a typhoon.
A commercial pilot flying 30 minutes ahead of the C-97 observed cloudy weather, light icing and light to moderate turbulence.
He also observed lightning in the sky, and recent research shows that lightning is more common in the early phases of, yeah, a tropical cyclone.
Back in California, the desert sun reported the conditions as winds of near-typhoon force.
Giant waves hurling spray hundreds of feet into the air.
It quoted a senior Air Force pilot as saying, "...it would have been damned near impossible to make a successful ditching attempt under these conditions.
The plane would just break into pieces in seas like these."
And then there's the MV Derbyshire.
Its story is more complex and more tragic than any mysterious triangle.
The Derbyshire's last known message on the 9th of September 1980 reported a severe tropical storm.
This was Typhoon Orchid, moving in from the east, a particularly brutal and long-lasting typhoon.
At 0300 hours Zulu, or GMT, the Derbyshire reported she was hoved to in a Force 11 storm with 30-foot waves, and then...
she was gone.
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