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TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2015

TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2015


Infra-red satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Soudelor (1513) at peak intensity at 2 a.m. on 4 August 2015


Figure 2.4   Infra-red satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Soudelor (1513) at peak intensity at 2 a.m. on 4 August 2015. Soudelor was centred over the western North Pacific about 2 130 km east-northeast of Manila with an estimated maximum sustained wind of 240 km/h and a minimum sealevel pressure of 905 hPa at that time.

[The satellite imagery was originally captured by the Himawari-8 Satellite (H-8) of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).]