NASA's TRMM satellite captures Typhoon Melor as it reaches Japan
Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 16:35
in Earth & Climate
Melor began as a tropical depression back on the 29th of September 2009 about 1000 miles (~1600 km) east-southeast of Guam in the Northern Mariana Islands. Over the next couple of days, the system steadily intensified, first into a tropical storm on the 30th, then into a typhoon on the morning of the 1st of October.