Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Typhoon Noru

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OriginalTyphoon Noru, with the tropical storm (or above) duration of 19 days, had all requirements of an annular typhooon on July 31, 2017, as it did not have clear rainbands and significant cirrus clouds. The size of Noru’s eye is average but relatively large for that small and axisymmetric system.
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.

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