Typhoon Megi breaks many records and becomes 21st century most intense cyclone

The giant typhoon Megi has been the strongest cyclone of this year with minimum air pressure (from unconfirmed source ) near to 885mb! and maximum one minute sustained winds of 305km/hr

On Oct 17th 2010,Megi became first tropical cyclone to have min pressure below 900mb after Hurricane Wilma which was in 2005 and had pressure of 882mb which is the world record low pressure in the atlantic ocean!

1979 Typhoon Tip has the WORLD RECORD LOW PRESSURE OF 870MB!!!!!!!

It also became the first cyclone to have one min sustained winds of 305km/hr(190mph) in last 30 years. On Oct 18th, Megi had the third highest 10min recorded winds of 230km/hr.

Highest winds of 260km/hr (10min) were of 1982 Typhoon Bess and followed by 260km/hr winds from Typhoon tip of 1979...

In all the 21st century hurricanes, Megi has reached the first position as the 2005 Hurricane Katrina was weaker as compared to Megi!

Megi is also powerful than the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane $95 million damage to USA and 408-600 deaths!

Below is the list of Most Intense Typhoons in the Western North Pacific!

Typhoon	Year	Pressure
		hPa	inHg
1	Tip	1979	870	25.7
2	Nora	1973	875	25.8
	June	1975
4	Ida	1958	877	25.9
5	Kit	1966	880	26.0
	Rita	1978
	Vanessa	1984
8	Nina	1953	885	26.1
	Joan	1959
	Irma	1971
	Forrest	1983
	Megi	2010
13	Marge	1951	886
14	Ida	1954	890	26.3
	Nancy	1961
	Emma	1962
	Amy	1971
	Wynne	1980
	Betty	1987
	Flo	1990
21	Vera	1959	895	26.4
	Violet	1961
	Sally	1964
	Wilda	1964
	Elsie	1969
	Patsy	1973
	Louise	1976
	Elsie	1981
	Mac	1982
	Abby	1983
	Marge	1983
	Dot	1985
	Ruth	1991
	Yuri	1991
35	Tess	1953	900	26.6
	Pamela	1954
	Virginia	1957
	Hester	1957
	Lola	1957
	Opal	1962
	Karen	1962
	Sally	1964
	Opal	1964
	Bess	1965
	Carla	1967
	Agnes	1968
	Viola	1969
	Hope	1970
	Nina	1975
	Elsie	1975
	Hope	1979
	Bess	1982
	Peggy	1986
	Holly	1987
	Gay	1992
	Zeb	1998
Source:Typhoon information for the Western Pacific ocean[4] SOURCE-WIKIPEDIA