# Super Typhoon

**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/super-typhoon/15117
**Category:** Marine Weather
**Created:** [August 3, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/super-typhoon/15117 "2015-08-03T20:21:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![fredwx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/fredwx/32/3873_2.png) [@fredwx](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/fredwx)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/super-typhoon/15117/1 "2015-08-03T20:21:13Z")

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Typhoon Soudelor has intensified rapidly and is now a Super Typhoon with max winds of 155 knots and significant wave heights to 50 feet (about 15 meters) and continues to move toward the WNW and will be nearing the northern tip of Taiwan at about 00Z on the 8[SUP]th[/SUP]. [http://oceanweatherservices.com/weather\_updates/](http://oceanweatherservices.com/weather_updates/)

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### Author: ![fredwx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/fredwx/32/3873_2.png) [@fredwx](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/fredwx)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2015, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/super-typhoon/15117/2 "2015-08-07T09:44:44Z")

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Typhoon Soudelor at 15Z 7th was moving WNW at 10 knots with max winds of about 105 knots and will make landfall over Taiwan at about 00Z on the 8th. [http://oceanweatherservices.com/weather\_updates/](http://oceanweatherservices.com/weather_updates/)