Typhoon Rammasun Explosively Re-Intensifies on Way to China, Vietnam

Typhoon Rammasun, which heavily damaged parts of the northern Philippines earlier this week, is once again rapidly intensifying as it spins its way toward a second and third landfall. And once again, tropical weather forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), which is run by the U.S. Navy and Air Force, seem to be several steps behind the curve in predicting the storm's intensity

As of Thursday morning Eastern Time, the JTWC had pegged the storm's estimated maximum sustained winds to be that of a Category One storm on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Scale

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