Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
As Typhoon Mawar (also called Betty in the Philippines) has been making its way across the North Pacific, NOAA satellites, along with satellites operated by our international partners, have been carefully tracking the storm.
Mawar is the second named storm and the first typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season. So far, Mawar is one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere on record that occurred in the month of May as well as the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide this year so far.
Read more about the storm:
Credits:
NOAA
NASA/GSFC
CIRA
Himawari-9 imagery courtesy of Japan Meteorological Agency.
Music:
“The Snow Will Thaw” by Phillip John Gregory [PRS]; Universal Production Music
As Typhoon Mawar (also called Betty in the Philippines) has been making its way across the North Pacific, NOAA satellites, along with satellites operated by our international partners, have been carefully tracking the storm.
Mawar is the second named storm and the first typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season. So far, Mawar is one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere on record that occurred in the month of May as well as the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide this year so far.
Read more about the storm:
Credits:
NOAA
NASA/GSFC
CIRA
Himawari-9 imagery courtesy of Japan Meteorological Agency.
Music:
“The Snow Will Thaw” by Phillip John Gregory [PRS]; Universal Production Music
