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NASA Goddard’s MODIS Rapid Response Team
NASA’s Aqua satellite supplied a visual picture of Super Typhoon Meranti because it continued to maneuver towards Taiwan and the northern Philippines. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a visual picture of Super Typhoon Meranti. The picture confirmed an outlined eye though stuffed with low clouds. Powerful thunderstorms encompass the attention in a thick round band. A big band of thunderstorms extends from the east of the middle, and sweeps to the south of the middle. Bands of thunderstorms from Meranti’s southern quadrant have been already over Luzon, the northern Philippines.
On Sept. 13 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), the utmost sustained winds in Super Typhoon Meranti have been close to 184.2 mph (160 knots/296.3 kph). Meranti is a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Meranti was centered close to 20.5 levels north latitude and 122.7 levels east longitude, about 284 nautical miles south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan. It was shifting to the west at 16.2 mph (14 knots/25.3 kph).
There are many warnings in impact. In the Philippines Luzon provinces beneath public storm warning sign embrace Signal #4 within the Batanes group of islands, Signal #3 within the Babuyan group of islands, Signal #2 within the northern Cagayan, Apayao, Ilocos Norte and Signal #1 in the remainder of Cagayan, northern Isabela, Kalinga, Abra, northern Ilocos Sur.
Warnings are additionally in impact in Taiwan. Meranti’s middle is anticipated to cross simply to the south of Taiwan on Sept.14. Updated warnings might be discovered at: http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/prevent/warning/I10big.htm?.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast requires Meranti to progressively weaken over the subsequent 24 hours. The weakening course of will speed up because the Meranti approaches landfall in southeastern China on Thursday, Sept. 15.
