NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Typhoon Chaba on August 29, 2004, at 1:45 UTC. At the time Chaba was located approximately 537 km (334 miles) south-southeast of Sasebo, Japan, and was moving towards the west-northwest at 15 km/hr (9 mph). Maximum sustained winds were near 194 km/hr (121 mph) with higher gusts to 241 km/hr (150 mph). Chaba means 'hibiscus' in Thai, and the storm does have an awesome beauty as it swirls in the Pacific south of Japan. Chaba is the third powerful tropical storm to hit Japan in the last two weeks, as first /NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12344 Typhoon Megi, then
