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TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2014

Infra-red satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Nuri (1420) at peak intensity at 2 a.m. on 3 November 2014. Nuri was centred over the western North Pacific about 1 260 km east-northeast of Manila with an estimated maximum sustained wind of 250 km/h and a minimum sea-level pressure of 905 hPa at that time.

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Infra-red satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Nuri (1420) at peak intensity at 2 a.m. on 3 November 2014. Nuri was centred over the western North Pacific about 1 260 km east-northeast of Manila with an estimated maximum sustained wind of 250 km/h and a minimum sea-level pressure of 905 hPa at that time.

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