TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2011

Figure 2.3 Infra-red satellite imagery at 2 p.m. on 26 May 2011 of Super Typhoon Songda (1102) at peak intensity. Songda, the most intense tropical cyclone in the region in 2011, was centred over the western North Pacific about 520 km east-northeast of Manila with an estimated maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h and a minimum sea-level pressure of 920 hPa at that time.

[The satellite imagery was originally captured by the Multi-functional Transport Satellite-2 (MTSAT-2) of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).]