Today, October 19, at 11 a.m. EDT (5 a.m. HST) Neki had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph, and was moving west-northwest near 14 mph. Estimated minimum central pressure is 1006 millibars. It was 825 miles south of Honolulu, Hawaii and about 830 miles southeast of Johnston Island near latitude 9.5 ...
Another QuikSCAT image, this time of Typhoon Melor. Typhoon Melor was a weakening Category 2 typhoon on the morning of October 7, 2009, when the QuikSCAT satellite collected the observations used to make this image. The image depicts the wind field associated with the storm. The strongest winds are ...
(Super) Typhoon „Melor“ ist auf dem Weg nach Japan. In 36 Stunden, am 8. Oktober morgens (Ortszeit) wird es wohl sdlich von Nagoya einschlagen. Fast auf den Punkt genau dort, wo im September 1959 Taifun „Vera“ die bisher schlimmsten Verwstungen auf den japanischen Inseln der letzten Jahrzehnte anger ...
QuikSCAT image of Tropical Storm Parma. On October 5, 2009, Typhoon Parma was parked over the South China Sea off the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines. Though the storm had degraded into a tropical storm, with relatively weak winds of 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour or 55 kno ...
The QuikSCAT weather satellite, which helps forecasters track remote tropical systems, may be on its last legs, U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, said today. Klein said he received an internal memo from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, alerting that bearings on the satellite are ...