A satellite from NASA-NOAA’s Finnish nuclear power plant found a stub
Tropical Depression 06W has been around for days and will still stay together as it moves westwards towards Taiwan in the Northwest Pacific. NASA-NOAA’s Finland NPP satellite took a visible picture of the storm.
On August 12, the Finnish Nuclear Power Plant’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument revealed partially revealed low-level orbital and building thunderstorms over the western quarter of Tropical Depression 06W. Satellite imagery also showed a poorly defined, wide center. Image courtesy of NASA Worldview at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) found on August 12 at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) the center of tropical recession 06W (TD06W) near latitude 5.0 degrees north and longitude 133.4 degrees east, about 349 nautical miles east. Air Base, Okinawa Island, Japan. 06W was moving west-southwest. The maximum continuous wind remained close to 25 knots (29 mph / 46 kmph).
The TD06W is expected to maintain intensity for another day and a half, after which it will decline.
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Author: Rob Gutro
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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