Tremendous Hurricane Maria’s seven nautical-mile broad eye appeared very clearly in a visual picture from NASA’s Aqua satellite tv for pc on July 6.
When NASA’s Aqua satellite tv for pc handed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on July 6 at 0350 UTC (July 5 at 11:50 p.m. EDT), the MODIS instrument or Average Decision Imaging Spectroradiometer offered a visible-light picture of Tremendous Hurricane Maria. The MODIS picture revealed a transparent, small eye, surrounded by a strong ring of sturdy thunderstorms.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on July 6, 2018, the Joint Hurricane Warning Middle (JTWC) famous that Tremendous Hurricane Maria was packing most sustained winds close to 155 mph (135 knots/250 kph). Maria was a robust Class four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Maria’s eye was centered close to 17.zero levels north latitude and 141.2 levels east longitude, about 480 nautical miles south of Iwo To island, Japan. Maria was shifting to the northwest at four.6 mph (four knots/7.four kph).
At the moment, the JTWC famous that the “sharply-outlined 7-nautical mile broad eye that has constricted over the previous 12 hours. This discount in eye diameter plus the formation of a secondary outer eye wall, as noticed in latest microwave photographs, point out the cyclone is present process a watch wall alternative cycle.”
JWTC stated that Maria is forecast to proceed to maneuver northwest. The system is intensifying quickly, and can peak as a Class 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale at 161 mph (140 knots/259 kph) on July 14. The storm is anticipated to begin weakening slowly on July eight en path to the Ryuku Islands. Maria is forecast to hurry towards Okinawa and go simply to its south, into the Yellow Sea and July 11 make landfall to the south of Shanghai close to Taizhou, China.
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