I draw tornadoes sometimes

EarthCARE passed near the eye of Super Typhoon #Champi earlier today as the storm was wrapping up its eyewall replacement cycle. The CPR and ATLID instruments revealed eyewall convection reaching an incredible altitude of ~18 km, approaching the upper limits of the troposphere! @esa_earthcare

Sunrise to sunset on Super Typhoon Champi: an eyewall nearly 2 Mount Everests tall casts shadows across an eye 1.2 Rhode Islands wide.

From Sunrise to Sunset, Super Typhoon Champi was a marvel from above. As an artist who's also fascinated by tropical cyclones, I deem this the most beautiful. The grand spiral and the incredible eye is just perfection.

24-hour loop of Super Typhoon #Champi

Beyond Unbelievable Dataset ‼️ Analysis Intensity Update Super Typhoon Champi 160kts/893mb The TC has rapidly organised, SAR RCM3 / RCM0 at 0929z observed 148kts, with WV min -18°C, now WV min -13°C, CDO expansion <600km (-80°C pink) is substantial of upper eschelon TCs.

This is what Typhoon Champi would look like if it was in the Gulf of *cough* sorry something was in my throat.

Without a doubt the most insane SAR scan I’ve ever seen with Super Typhoon Champi out in the Pacific. Unbelievable stuff and great data.

You are looking at the strongest storm on the entire planet tonight. Super Typhoon Champi has been an absolute monster now for 24 straight hours.

Sunrise-to-Sunset view of Super Typhoon Champi's incredible stadium eye. Look at those vortices! #SuperTyphoonChampi #Typhoon #TyphoonCHAMPI

The sun rises on an incredible Super Typhoon Champi.

And just for curiosity, here is what it would look like if Champi were magically teleported into the middle of the Gulf.

the upper-level outflow clouds of Super Typhoon #Champi are incredible. A massive grand spiral of cloud over 2,000 km across!

Champi has strengthened further and is now at 160kt/185mph with a pressure of around 895 millibars, and potentially even a bit stronger still. Here's a 12 hour loop of the storm, absolute eye candy.

Storm-following of Champi for ~5 hours as it passed south of Guam earlier today. One zoomed in on the eye for a look at those mesovorts and another wider shot. Multi-tilt loops to give a bit more temporal resolution/smoothness than it otherwise would be. Incredible data!

My oh my... Super Typhoon Champi is a beast.

Imagine a storm being a high-end Category 4 and STILL rapidly intensifying. The past ~24 hours of Champi have been absolutely unreal. This thing is now an ultra-symmetric buzzsaw with 185+ mph eyewall winds (as strong as Melissa). The eye is now ~35 miles wide.

Meteorological perfection out of the Western Pacific this morning. Super Typhoon #CHAMPI’s CDO is exceptionally round, with a very thick ring of convection. Winds are up to 155 kts (180 mph) with a pressure of 902 mb. Visually, it’s among the top of the year.

What Super Typhoon Champi is doing right now is almost unheard of. We have seen many storms in the West Pacific achieve this kind of extreme intensity before, but few have done so with an eye and eyewall as physically massive as Champi’s. At 185 MPH (298 kph), with gusts likely over 215 MPH (345 kph) and a near-buoy confirmed eye pressure of 895 MBAR, this is one of the most ridiculous cyclonic core structures we have ever seen in the satellite era.

Absolute Cinema

The sun is beginning to rise on Super Typhoon #Champi, one of the strongest storms on the planet this year. Its massive 45 mile wide eye is surrounded by intense spiral gravity waves that resemble the rifling pattern of a gun barrel. Incredible!