August 22, 2016
When Typhoon Mindulle blew ashore near Tokyo, the typhoon lashed the city with gusts of wind up to 125 kilometers (78 miles) per hour. At 10:45 a.m. local time on August 21 (03:45 Universal Time), the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of the storm. A second storm, Lionrock, churned south of Japan. This is the first time Tokyo has been hit by a tropical storm in eleven years.
References & Resources
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center (2016, August 22) Lionrock. Accessed August 22, 2016.
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center (2016, August 22) Mindulle. Accessed August 22, 2016.
- Unisys Weather (2016, August 22) 2016 Hurricane/Tropical Data for Western Pacific. Accessed August 22, 2016.
- The Japan Times (2016, August 22) Typhoon Mindulle lashes Tokyo, heads north to Tohoku and Hokkaido. Accessed August 22, 2016.
- Stars and Stripes (2016, August 22) Tokyo pummeled by first direct typhoon landfall in 11 years. Accessed August 22, 2016.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response . Caption by Adam Voiland.
