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Orbital View Of Extra-Tropical Cyclone Lan Speeding Through Northern Japan

By Keith Cowing
October 23, 2017
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Orbital View Of Extra-Tropical Cyclone Lan Speeding Through Northern Japan
Extra-Tropical Cyclone Lan
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On Oct. 23 at 03:42 UTC (Oct. 22 at 11:42 p.m. EDT) NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided this visible image of Post-tropical cyclone Lan over Hokkaido, Japan. Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan’s main islands.
The image showed the center near Hokkaido while clouds from the western side of the storm extended into the Sea of Japan.

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Lan on Oct. 23 at 03:53 UTC (Oct. 22 at 11:53 p.m. EDT). Infrared data provides cloud top temperatures and the coldest cloud tops and strongest storms were in eastern Hokkaido.

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