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May 31, 2023 - Mawar Churns in the Pacific

   Mawar
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   For most of 2023, the northwest Pacific has been relatively quiet.
   Typhoon Mawar (also called Betty), the first typhoon of the season,
   shattered that calm when it lashed the Mariana Islands on May 24 and
   rapidly intensified to Category 5 strength in the Philippine Sea. With
   sustained winds that reached 295 kilometers (185 miles) per hour on May
   25, the super typhoon grew to be one of the strongest May storms on
   record.

   The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s
   Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image of Mawar at 05:20
   Universal Time on May 30, 2023. Though the storm appeared to be bearing
   down on Taiwan, it was in the process of turning north and away from
   the island. After rapidly intensifying between May 24 and 25, Mawar
   then weakened significantly as it encountered cooler water temperatures
   and less favorable wind shear conditions as it neared Taiwan.

   Around the time of the MODIS image, the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning
   Center reported that Mawar had sustained winds of 120 kilometers (80
   miles) per hour, with gusts up to 150 kilometers per hour. Though Mawar
   did not strike the Philippines or Taiwan directly, the outer bands of
   the storm brought heavy rains to northern Luzon and rough seas to the
   eastern coast of Taiwan. Forecasters expected the weakening storm to
   next move north toward the Sakishima Islands, an island group in
   southern Japan, and then northeast and away from the Japanese mainland.

   The Western Pacific typhoon season stretches across the entire year,
   but most storms form between May and October. As of May 30, one named
   storm and one typhoon had formed so far in 2023.

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Aqua
   Date Acquired: 5/30/2023
   Resolutions:  1km (449.6 KB),  500m (1.4 MB),  250m (4.1 MB)
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-05-31
 
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