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Category: Tropical cyclones

Typhoon Wipha

McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the center of Typhoon Wipha moving just southeast of Japan on 15 October 2013. The asterisk at the center of the images denotes the location of Tokyo Narita International Airport — many areas in... Read More

Super Typhoon Usagi

McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed Super Typhoon Usagi in the West Pacific Ocean as it continued to move northwestward across the Philippine Sea. Note the slight amount of “trochoidal wobble” seen in the path of the eye. The coldest... Read More