A satellite from NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant needed 3 orbits
NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant satellite provided forecasters with a visible composite image of the very large super-typhoon Hagibis in the Northwest Pacific on October 10th. It took the Finnish nuclear power plant three orbits to take pictures so that the whole storm showed that it remained effective. structure.
Visible imagery from NASA satellites will help predictors understand whether the storm is organizing or deteriorating due to changes in its structure. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) at the Finnish nuclear power plant gave three visible images of Hagibis on 10 October. These images had to be put together to make the whole storm visible in NASA’s Worldview, the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). ) data product at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The picture showed an eye surrounded by strong thunderstorms and a large “tail” of clouds flowing northeast of downtown.
At 5:00 a.m. EDT (0900 UTC), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that the center of the supercyphoon Hagibis was located near latitude 24.4 degrees north and longitude 139.4 degrees east. Hagibis is about 654 miles (560 km) south of Yokosuka, Japan. Hagibis is moving northwest. The maximum continuous wind speed is close to 161 mph (259 km / h / 140 knots) and the gust is higher.
Hagibis remains at its peak as a Class 5 hurricane on the wind scale of Hurricane Saffir-Simpson. The system will continue northwest as it goes through a declining trend as it approaches Japan. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center said, “Hagibis will land quickly near Yokosuka via Sagami wan shortly after 48 hours (after 5 a.m. EDT (0900 UTC) on Oct. 10) before returning to the Pacific.”
Hurricanes are the strongest weather event on earth. NASA’s space and scientific research expertise contributes to essential services provided to Americans by other federal agencies, such as hurricane weather forecasts.
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