Home/BlogRated the strongest typhoon since Haiyan, which killed 6,000 people in the Philippines last November, Super Typhoon Vongfong in the extreme western tropical Pacific now has peak winds of 165 mph and ocean swells as high as 50 ft as it moves northward toward Okinawa, Japan.
I put together this NASA MODIS image montage, only a few hours old, which shows the intricate swirling cloud structure within the eye of the typhoon early Thursday afternoon (click for full-size):
Super Typhoon Vongfong in the western Pacific as viewed by the MODIS imager on the NASA Aqua satellite, early Thursday afternoon.
Here are some other great views of Typhoon Vongfong at mashable.com.
