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TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2013

 

Infra-red satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Haiyan (1330) at peak intensity at 2 a.m. on 8 November 2013. Haiyan was centred over the western North Pacific about 780 km southeast of Manila with an estimated maximum sustained wind of 285 km/h and a minimum sea-level pressure of 890 hPa at that time. It is the most intense tropical cyclone in the western North Pacific and the South China Sea since Super Typhoon Tip in October 1979.

Figure 2.3 Infra-red satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Haiyan (1330) at peak intensity at 2 a.m. on 8 November 2013. Haiyan was centred over the western North Pacific about 780 km southeast of Manila with an estimated maximum sustained wind of 285 km/h and a minimum sea-level pressure of 890 hPa at that time. It is the most intense tropical cyclone in the western North Pacific and the South China Sea since Super Typhoon Tip in October 1979.

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