NASA's Aqua satellite provided infrared and visible views of Typhoon Lekima as it was approaching landfall in China.
On Aug. 9 at 12:41 a.m. EDT (441 UTC) the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Lekima's cloud top temperatures in infrared light.
The stronger the storms, the higher they extend into the troposphere, and they have the colder cloud temperatures.
AIRS found coldest cloud top temperatures as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) around the eye and in thick bands of thunderstorms wrapping into the center from the north and southeast.
On Aug 9 at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 UTC), the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that also flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite provided visible views of powerful Typhoon Lekima affecting China.
The satellite showed a clear, small, rounded eye surrounded by a thick, powerful ring of thunderstorms and a large band of thunderstorms extending north of the center.
NOAA-NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image using NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Worldview application on Aug. 08, 2019 and it shows Supertyphoon Lekima heading towards the coast of China as Typhoon Krosa brings up the rear moving slowly towards Japan.
Typhoon Krosa is currently located 167 nautical miles southwest of Iwo To, Japan.
It is slowly tracking northeastward at one knot over the past six hours making it quasi-stationary as it intensified and maintained its 14 nautical mile eye.
Krosa's winds are steady at approximately 100 knots (115 mph) which on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale would make this storm just over the Category 3 designation.
Like Lekima, Krosa is able to intensify due to low vertical wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures in the area of 30 degrees C (86 degrees F) both of which are favorable to typhoon development and intensification.
For the time being, Krosa will remain quasi-stationary and continue to intensify for the next 12 hours.
Maharashtra Flood: In a previous post, I shared and enlisted all the accidents that were caused by the heavy rain in Mumbai.
2004 flood and all of us were if the history would repeat itself.
The fear has come true as Maharashtrian people are actually struggling for their lives.
The continuous rain has ended up in an emergency situation as more than 2 Lakh people have evacuated from their own homes and landed on safer places.
What is more depressing than evacuation, is that 27 people have been declared as dead due to Maharashtra Flood, and a large number of people are still missing.
Impact of Maharashtra Flood on People
Disaster - The National agency for Disaster management (BNPB) has budgeted funds worth Rp 850 billion to the anticipation of potential disaster.
The funding is Ready-Made (DSP) that can be used for disaster management, including those that occur due to extreme weather in Indonesia.
“Not only for hydro-meteorological disasters or transition season, this DSP also applies to any kind of disaster that might occur until the end of this year,” said Agus Wibowo, Head of Data Information and public Relations BNPB in its official statement, Friday (1/11).
Previously, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics agency (BMKG) predicted, the beginning of the rainy season this year the countdown to the new will happen in November-December 2019 to a peak in January-February the year 2020.
This was stated by the Head of the Field of Prediction and Early Warning Weather, BMKG, Miming Saepudin, M. Si in a Press Conference with the Expert and Intelligence Team in the Building Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Graha BNPB Jakarta, October 31, 2019.
(Read: Extreme Weather, BMKG Warns of a Potential Disaster at the Turn of the Season)
