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2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation Released!

Force Thirteen — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:26:36 +0000

After a long, record-breaking, and destructive hurricane season, the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation has finally arrived. The 2024 season was the second-costliest tropical cyclone season in history, due in part to extremely powerful damaging storms, like Helene, which became the third-costliest hurricane ever, Milton, one of the strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic basin by both wind speed and barometric pressure. Beryl became both the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record, beating Dennis and Emily of 2005, respectively. Finally, Debby, albeit a much weaker storm in comparison to the previously mentioned storms, became Canada’s costliest tropical cyclone on record as it brought extreme flooding to Quebec during its extratropical phase, beating Fiona of 2022.

Watch our animation of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season using this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM86Ghca5RQ

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2023 Pacific Typhoon Season Animation Released

Force Thirteen — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:49:43 +0000

The 2023 Pacific Typhoon Season was another below-average season, namely the fourth-consecutive season to have a below average number of storms despite the El Niño. Although it still saw many storms dealing a lot of damage to countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, China and more. Within the 2023 Pacific Typhoon Season, notable and well-known storms were Mawar (Betty), Doksuri (Egay), Saola (Goring) and Bolaven. Super Typhoon Doksuri caused devastating damage to affected countries, adding up to $15.5 billion in damages and caused 139 casualties, which made it the deadliest and costliest storm of the season.

Replay all of the storms with our 2023 West Pacific Typhoon Season Animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzp_u6Kl3d0

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Track of Cyclone Mocha (Video)

Force Thirteen — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:44:04 +0000

Cyclone Mocha was a very destructive Category 5 equivalent cyclone in the Bay of Bengal in May of 2023. Mocha made landfall as a Category 4 equivalent just north of Sittwe, Myanmar, causing severe damage. Cyclone Mocha was, in addition, the first Category 5 storm in the North Indian Ocean basin since Cyclone Amphan of May 2020. Watch our full track animation for Cyclone Mocha using the link below!

Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLmXHzft-Q4

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Celebrate the New Year With Force Thirteen!

Force Thirteen — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:48:05 +0000

Happy New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day around the world! Another sensational year has passed, we at Force Thirteen and our team are ready to count down to the new year with bloopers, highlights, gameshows and other fun throughout the night! We’ll be hosting a live stream starting at 21z with all these highlights and more! Watch using the link below!

Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bosoY8Kvyw

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1997 Pacific Hurricane Season Animation v2 Released!

Force Thirteen — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:49:05 +0000

We’ve released an updated animation of the 1997 East Pacific Hurricane Season! The 1997 Hurricane Season across the East Pacific was a historic one, featuring two Category 5 storms – Guillermo, and Linda, with Linda being at the time the strongest hurricane ever observed in the basin, until being passed later in 2015. Pauline also caused catastrophic impacts across coastal Mexico in October, earning it’s retirement. Watch using the link below!

Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz1h6XPtmVg

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On This Day – January 25th: Cyclone Funso

Force Thirteen — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:07:53 +0000

On this day in 2012, Intense Tropical Cyclone Funso peaked in the Mozambique Channel.

Unofficial Force Thirteen analysis indicates Funso’s peak to have been with winds of 145 mph (1-min sustained) and a pressure of 925 hPa (mbar).

NASA’s Terra satellite captures Cyclone Funso at peak intensity in the Mozambique Channel on January 25th, 2012.
(Credit: NASA/MODIS)

Funso was the first storm since Cyclone Jokwe (2008) to impact Mozambique, and was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2011-12 Southwest Indian Ocean Cyclone Season.

Cyclone Funso is remembered primarily due to its erratic track in the Mozambique Channel.

The cyclone had also came to a crawl at one point prior to peak and spent several days meandering off the coast of Mozambique.

Even though Funso never made landfall, over three million people were still affected by the storm’s gale-force winds.

A total of 12 lives were lost in the Zambezia Province, and further impacts were also recorded in the Inhambane Province.

The Movene River, the main water source for residents of Maputo, had risen at a substantial rate.

Funso is also responsible for providing flooding across the Incomati River.

In neighboring Malawi, heavy rainfall was also recorded.

Météo France forecast cone showing Funso’s historic path as it meandered off the Mozambique coast.
(Credit: Météo France)

Two rivers exceeded their banks causing floods that destroyed roads and bridges between Blantyre and Nsanje.

This resulted in at least 30 villages becoming isolated.

Cyclone Funso continued a series of flooding events that had been occurring throughout Southern Africa in 2012.

The flooding itself had begun with an enhanced monsoon, but then, Tropical Storm Dando struck the country and worsened the flooding by a large margin.

When Cyclone Funso stalled off the coast, the flooding was prolific enough to unfortunately claim the lives of up to 40 people.

Funso also became one of the first storms to be animated by Force Thirteen – With this animation coming out almost 10 years ago!
Watch Here: https://youtu.be/e-jWU7In2VQ

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