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VA3 VW X4ID and this is likely at this point in time this is likely to be the strongest tropical system we've seen this year, this calendar year as of January. So according to the JMA, that's the Japanese Meteorological Association, it had a 10 minute sustained wind of 205 km an hour, that's 125 mph and they were giving it a central minimum pressure of 905 HPA, that's 26.72 inches of mercury or 905 millibars. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is slightly different, their 1 minute sustained winds were 270 km an hour, that's 165 mph. The discrepancy of course is one is a 10 minute sustained wind speed, the other is a 1 minute sustained. So essentially you're looking at a gust, most of the gusts are sort of micro gusts, they're on the order of 10 seconds or so, but the 1 minute sustained winds are sort of what we're used to looking at with the Saffir-Simpson scale, even in Australia they use that for their cyclones. Either way 270 km an hour is the 1 minute sustained winds, that's 165 mph and the pressure from the JTWC, that's the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, that's a little higher at 910 millibars or HPA and that's 26.87 inches of mercury. Let me drop it.