10 Stunning Images of Category 5 Super Typhoon Atsani and Typhoon Goni

Chris Dolce
Published: August 19,2015
Super Typhoon Atsani intensified into the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph as of late Wednesday morning, EDT. Atsani is the sixth super typhoon this year in the western Pacific, and the latest to provide us with stunning imagery from satellites in space.
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In addition to Atsani, a strong Typhoon Goni is swirling in the western Pacific to the west of Atsani. Goni will impact parts of east Asia late this week into the weekend.
(FORECAST: Goni's Impacts)
The first in our series of images shows Super Typhoon Atsani (right) and Typhoon Goni (left) at the same time as viewed from the Japanese Meteorological Agency's new Himawari-8 satellite Wednesday.

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 Here is another view of both Atsani and Goni using colorized infrared satellite imagery from Wednesday.

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The eye of Atsani as it reached Category 5 status Wednesday.

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 Another view of Atsani near its peak intensity Wednesday.

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A close-up of Atsani's eye on visible satellite imagery Wednesday.

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The Himawari-8 visible satellite captured this view Atsani's eye just before sunset Wednesday.

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This animation shows the last few images from the Himawari-8 satellite just before sunset Wednesday.

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Shown in this image is the eyewall of Atsani when it was near peak intensity Wednesday. Although no earth-based radar sites were available at that time, microwave imagery from satellites can give you a good idea of what the eyewall looks like.

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The tiny eye of Typhoon Goni (center of the image) when it was a Category 4 Monday.

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Goni's eye grew much larger after Monday, as this satellite image from Wednesday shows.

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