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Typhoon Chan-hom

The storm grew from a Category 1 to a Category 4 typhoon as it pushed toward the coast of China.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Typhoon Chan-hom.

NASA Earth Observatory maps (top) by Joshua Stevens, using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA image (bottom) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published July 11, 2015
Data acquired July 7 - 9, 2015