Meteorological History
A tropical disturbance in a trough was first detected 150 nautical miles (280 kilometres) southeast of Ponape on October 11. Moving west-northwest, the system reached tropical storm intensity on October 13 south of Guam, and was named Dot.
Continuing its track towards the west, it attained typhoon status north of Yap late on October 14. Continuing to move west-northwestward at a nearly-constant 12 knots, it rapidly intensified on October 15, with the minimum sea-level pressure of the storm deepening 66 millibars in 23 hours - a rate of a drop of 2.8 mb/hour (in comparison, Hurricane Wilma of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded, deepened at a rate of 3 mb/hour at one point). This rapid deepening caused problems with the JTWC's intensity forecasts, and by the end of the day Dot had been upgraded to a super typhoon (winds above or equal to 130 knots). Dot maintained super typhoon strength until just before its first landfall on the Philippines on the 18th, crossing Luzon without ever losing typhoon intensity. Once back in open water of the South China Sea, Dot reintensified, peaking at 90 knots south-southwest of Hong Kong.
Weakening, Dot scraped the southern Hainan coast before making its final landfall in the former North Vietnam 130 nautical miles (240 km) south of Hanoi. Dot then dissipated over mountains while inland.
Read more about this topic: Typhoon Dot (1985)
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