NASA-NOAA Satellite Tracking Typhoon Maysak’s Approach to Landfall

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Maysak is forecast to move north and make landfall later in the day today.

Typhoon Maysak was moving north through the East China Sea early on Sept. 2 when NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and captured a visible image of the storm approaching landfall in South Korea.

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP provided a visible image of Typhoon Maysak on Sept. 2 at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 UTC) and saw Typhoon Maysak headed for landfall in southern South Korea. The image revealed that the eye had again become obscured, and strong thunderstorms circled the center of circulation. The northern quadrant was already moving over South Korea and the eastern quadrant was brushing Kyushu, Japan. Kyushu is the most southern and third largest island of Japan’s five main islands.

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