A satellite from a Finnish nuclear power plant sees a tropical storm, Champ, affecting Guam
The tropical storm Champi was over Guam and the Mariana Islands when a satellite from NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant took a visible picture of the storm. On October 16, Champi was moving further west from Saipan and Tinian.
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant satellite saw the Tropical Storm Champ on October 16 at 0409 (09.09 EDT). The VIIRS image of visible light showed that the strongest thunderstorms associated with the tropical cyclone were in the western quarter of the storm and above Guam. Guam is a U.S. island nation in Micronesia in the western Pacific.
On October 16, 2015, at 5:00 a.m. EDT / 0900 UTC, the Champin Center for Tropical Storm was located near latitude 15.8 in the north and 144.7 in the west. The storm is approximately 127 nautical miles (146 miles / 235 km) north of Saipan and is moving west at a speed of 17 knots (19.5 mph / 31.4 km / h). The maximum continuous wind was nearly 60 knots (69 mph / 111 kmph).
Guam’s national weather service continued to warn the tropical storm of Rat, Tinian and Saipan. Updated Guam forecasts are available on the National Weather Service website: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/guam/.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast urges Champ to move west-northwest and curve north-northeast and then northeast by October 20, taking it east from the island of Iwo Ton in Japan.
Finnish nuclear power plant satellite sees tropical storm near Champ in the Northern Mariana Islands
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