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Super Typhoon Nock-Ten strikes the Philippines

By Scott Bachmeier •

Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images [click to play MP4 animation]

Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images [click to play MP4 animation]

Rapid-scan (2.5-minute interval) 2-km resolution Himawari-8 Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images (above; also available as a 173 Mbyte animated GIF) showed Category 4 Super Typhoon Nock-Ten making landfall in the Philippines on 25 December 2016. Nock-Ten became the strongest typhoon on record (SATCON | ADT | source) in the Philippines so late in the year:

A 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) image at 1724 UTC on 24 December (below; courtesy of William Straka, SSEC) was acquired just before the beginning of the Himawari-8 animations above; note the presence of cloud-top gravity waves propagating southeastward away from the eye of Nock-Ten, in addition to prominent larger-scale transverse banding farther out within the eastern semicircle of the storm.

Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) image [click to enlarge]

Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) image [click to enlarge]

Categories: Himawari-8, Suomi NPP, Tropical cyclones, VIIRS