NASA eyes storm Haishen’s 10 mile-huge stare

NASA’s Terra satellite’s seen image of Typhoon Haishen printed a small “pinhole” stare surrounded by several hundred miles of thunderstorms spiraling spherical it as it continued inviting north though the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

NASA satellite see: Haishen’s organization

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a seen image of Typhoon Haishen on Sept. 3 at 0145 UTC (Sept. 2 at 9: 45 p.m. EDT). Satellite imagery shows deep convection and spiral banding of thunderstorms wrapping tightly all the procedure via the 10 nautical-mile huge stare and into a low-level circulation heart.

Satellite imagery used to be created using NASA’s Worldview product at NASA’s Goddard Boom Flight Heart in Greenbelt, Md.

Haishen on Sept. 1

At 5 a.m. EDT (0900 UTC) on Sept. 3, the Joint Typhoon Warning Heart (JTWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii illustrious that Typhoon Haishen used to be positioned about 646 nautical miles east-southeast of Kadena Air Miserable, Okinawa Island, Japan. It used to be centered shut to latitude 20.7 degrees north and longitude 137.7 degrees east. Haishen used to be inviting to the northwest with most sustained winds of 95 knots (109 mph/176 kph).

Haishen is forecast to flip northwest whereas intensifying to 130 knots (150 mph/241 kph) at some level of the following two days. The storm will scoot west of Kyushu, Japan to fabricate landfall in South Korea after 4 days.