This is tops typhoon Soudelor , fascinate by NASA legal instrument as it come upon Category Five status on the Saffir - Simpson Wind Scale earlier today . Its heart is 12 marine miles widely ; its confidential information are up to 161 miles per hr ; and the extremely pugnacious moving ridge below it are up to 48 feet high-pitched .
accord toNASA ’s Goddard Space Flight Center :
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast takes Soudelor on a west - northwestern way near the Nipponese island of Ishigakijima on August 7 and then over northern Taiwan before making landfall in southeasterly China on August 8 .
The storm is prognosticate to weaken as it go on on its trek to the west - northwest . sake in the path of this Super typhoon should cook for storm surge , heavy rainfall , mudslide in high terrain areas , and typhoon - military group winds .
Image credits : NASA Goddard ’s MODIS Rapid Response Team
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