Talk:Typhoon Minnie/@comment-5617649-20140420192943/@comment-5142524-20140420194748

It probably would be much worse than portrayed here. The way I think of hyper cyclonic systems, they could probably form if global temperatures shot up by 5 or 6 degrees Celsius, as that would mean that some parts of the Earth's oceans would shoot up to 107 degrees Fahrenheit (at least, that's if the geological record holds some truth), according to Mark Lyna's "6 Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet". And, IMHO, considering the way society is going now, I think global temperatures would be much higher than the 4 degrees Celcius that the IPCC predicts by 2100. And considering that hypercanes can produce winds well beyond tornadic force, that's bad news for cities like Houston, Tokyo, or New York, which wouldn't even make it through a major hurricane, let alone a Category 5 or stronger storm system.

It's possible that they might have contributed to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, although that's just my opinion.

Also, the reason I made these storms so deadly is because that, IMO, is the most realistic way to go. A hypercane would basically flatten areas hundreds of miles from the eye, and I would think that a hypercane would be the size of countries, so it would basically be the apocalypse if that happened here. A hypercane's winds would alone be so destructive, since the pressure exerted against an object rises with the square of the wind (i.e., a doubling of the wind speed equals four times the pressure on the object), so, really, everything gets destroyed. I would also think that a hypercane would be able to produce storm surges well over 60 feet tall... nah, forget that, make that 100 feet tall, as a hypercane would be the size of big countries (Saudi Arabia-sized, at least), so there would be an enormous fetch with the system.

And that's not taking into account the fact that a hypercane would basically produce major ozone holes in the atmosphere.

In other words, a hypercane in our world would be like a supervolcanic eruption occuring or a major asteroid striking the Earth. It would be nothing short of devastating.