The Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 satellite captured this 2.5-minute visible, rapid-scan imagery of Typhoon Talim in the western Pacific Ocean today, September 14, 2017. The most recent report from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center noted that Talim was approximately 172 nautical miles west of Okinawa, Japan, and tracking toward the north-northwest. Talim has maximum sustained winds of about 130 miles per hour with gusts up to 160 mph and forecasters expect the storm to intensify due to

The Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 satellite captured this color-enhanced infrared animation of Tropical Cyclone Ernie in the southern Indian Ocean today, April 7, 2017. The colors correspond to infrared brightness temperatures -- a close approximation to cloud top temperature. As the colors get darker along the scale (green to yellow to orange to red) they correspond to colder temperatures and, therefore, higher clouds. (e.g., the clouds colored red are higher and colder than those co

This full-disk infrared imagery from the Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 satellite shows both Typhoon Sarika (left) and Typhoon Haima (right) in the Northwest Pacific Ocean over a 24-hours period from about 19:00 UTC on October 16, 2016, to 18:30 on October 17.) According to information from the Joint Typhoon warning Center, Typhoon Sarika is located approximately 409 miles east-southeast of Hanoi, Vietnam, and has tracked northwestward at 9 miles per hour (mph) over the past six hours.