The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer known as the MODIS instrument flies on NASA's Aqua satellite and has been keeping up with Tropical Storm Malou's march into the Sea of Japan this weekend, and Malou is headed for a landfall later today in Japan.
MODIS captured two images of Tropical Storm Malou as it moved northeastward through the Korea Strait and into the Sea of Japan on Sept. 6 and Sept. 7. The images showed Malou's large cloud cover extended from South Korea (to the west) over southern Japan (to the east). Malou is barely hanging onto tropical storm strength today, September 7, with maximum sustained winds near 39 mph. It is located near 35.5 North and 133.0 East, about 190 nautical miles west of Kyoto, Japan.
Animated infrared satellite imagery indicates that Malou continues to undergo extra-tropical transition as its strongest convection is now northeast of the low-level circulation center because of wind shear.
It is moving east-northeast at 18 mph and will continue on that track, remaining over open waters of the Sea of Japan until a landfall in southern Honshu later today. Thereafter it will move into the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as a weak extratropical low pressure area.
Text credit: Rob Gutro, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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