Ladies and gentleman, I give you Typhoon Longwang. It could pound Asia pretty hard. It may penetrate deep into the continent. Let's hope it doesn't result in another premature evacuation.

OK, so it's a little juvenile.

Actually, it would have been better if they'd hung that moniker on this storm.

[Update a couple minutes later]

A comment from "Psychobunny" at Free Republic:

If this thing makes landfall in Puntang, the Weather Channel's going to have to go Pay Per View.

[Update again]

And the hits keep coming:

Typhoon LONGWANG is still a small typhoon, but the clouds got more rounded and spiralled. It is forecast to keep intensification for the moment, and the typhoon gets more powerful if it starts to be bigger.

So what is it on the Holmes Turgidity Scale? HTS 9.5? I guess we can call this one a one-eyed monster as well.

Great site you're running here.

I look forward to reading more.

- Bruce

Careful, Bruce. That comment was so generic, I almost deleted it (and URLs to your site) as spam...

yea, it's funny, but if you were curious, it's chinese for "dragon king" - 龙王

I think CINDY would do fine for a big storm this CINDY SHEEHAN is a big wind