NASA-NOAA’s Finland NPP satellite sees two Trop
Tropical Storm Lionrock was east of Kyushu, southwest of the main islands of Japan, while Tropical Storm Mindu was southeast of Toyko, when NASA-NOAA’s Finland nuclear power plant satellite passed the interception on August 21. The storms are each in different directions.
August 21 at 11:45 pm EDT (0345 UTC, August 22) NASA-NOAA’s Finnish Nuclear Power Plant satellite VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) captured a visible light image of tropical storms Lionrock and Mindu. The VIIRS image showed that the wind cut has been eased in both storms because they looked rounder than the day before.
After the Finland NPP image, Lionrock continued to move southwest and away from Kyushu Island, Japan, and Mindu landed south of Toyko and now moved north of the city.
Mindule headed north
At 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on August 22, 2016, Tropical Storm Mindu centered near 37.9 degrees north latitude and 140.7 degrees east longitude, about 152 nautical miles south of Misawa, Japan. Mindulle has been followed by a north-northeast speed of 23.0 mph (20 knots / 37.0 km / h) and is expected to continue moving in this direction. The maximum continuous wind speed was close to 46.0 mph (40 knots / 74.0 km / h).
According to a forecast by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, a tropical storm for Mindu will move north across Honshu and Hokkaido and become extratropic.
Lionrock headed south
11:00 AM EDT (1500 UTC) August 22, 2016 Tropical Storm Lionrock concentrated near 28.4 degrees north latitude and 133.9 degrees east longitude, about 344 nautical miles east of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Lionrock has traveled south-southeast at 3.4 mph (3 knots / 5.5 km / h) and is expected to turn southwest and curve north as it strengthens. The maximum continuous wind speed was almost 40 mph (35 knots / 62 km / h).
Lionrock is expected to bypass Japan’s Minami Daito Jima Island to the east on August 24 and then become a typhoon as it turns north.
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