Looking Down the Eye of Typhoon Choi-Wan

Posted by StarryGift On Mar 20, 2009

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Looking Down the Eye of Typhoon Choi-Wan

Choi Wan on Sept. 17, 2009. Credit: the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua Satellite.

Here's a look at Typhoon Choi-Wan. This is a big storm covering a huge area, and luckily it is now weakening as it continues to move northeast over the Pacific Ocean. This image was taken on Sept. 18, 2009, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua Satellite. Although the storm maintains its tightly wound symmetric shape, the striking clear eye is gone, unlike the image below, which was taken on Sept. 15. Now a category 3 storm, Choi-wan now has winds of about 200 kilometers per hour (125 miles per hour or 110 knots), whereas on the 15th, sustained winds were clocked at between 250 kilometers per hour (155 miles per hour or 135 knots) and 240 km/hr (150 mph or 130 knots), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The storm continues to skirt along the coast of Japan, causing huge waves, but is not expected to make landfall.

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