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The MODIS instrument onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this bird’s-eye view of Typhoon Parma churning in the western Pacific Ocean. With top sustained winds near 100 mph, Parma was centered 540 miles to the east of Iwo Jima and was moving toward the northeast at 14 mph.
Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.
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The super typhoon headed for Guangdong province after lashing Taiwan and northern Luzon in the Philippines.
Tens of thousands of people fled to safety as blazes spread throughout the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions.
The tropical cyclones are close enough in proximity that they may influence one another.
