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Reason

High-resolution picture of a nearly perfect annular typhoon at its peak intensity. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured Typhoon Noru with a pefect angle, presenting an exquisite tropical cyclone. In the picture, the eye is so symmetric and deep; the convective ring looks so compact and smooth, but it does not attach to the monsoon trough. Moreover, the eye and the convective ring are in the golden ratio. When I initially saw the image last July, I was truly touched beyond words. I have checked many beautiful tropical cyclones in Wikipedia, yet none of them is really comparable. Aside from the extremely rare appearance, Noru was the second strongest typhoon of 2017 and the second longest lasting Northwest Pacific tropical storm in history, which ultimately struck Japan.

Articles in which this image appears

Annular tropical cyclone, 2017 Pacific typhoon season, Typhoon Noru (2017)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Weather

Creator

MODIS image was captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite and optimized by Meow for solving overexposure.

• Support as nominator –  🐱💬 16:57, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Support -  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:13, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Support: as per what Meow said - Typhoon2013 (talk) 06:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - This is a perfect chance for you, eh? Well, i could say as a "YES". - Nino Marakot (talk page) 11:36, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• comment Can you expand on what you mean by "optimized by Meow for solving overexposure"?©Geni (talk) 16:44, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Geni: As the picture was captured near noon and in summer, sunlight over the area was too bright that even caused significant overexposure. The typhoon itself also enhanced the effect of overexposure as its cloud top was too smooth to have obvious shadows. The original picture looked completely white without optimization. A Himawari-8 animation on that day also revealed how the satellite solved overexposure. 🐱💬 02:06, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - --위키광역시 (talk) 06:06, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Noru 2017-07-31 0415Z.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]