Himawari-8 true-color image of, from left to right, Severe Tropical Storm Linfa, Typhoon Chan-hom, and Typhoon Nangka simultaneously active in the West Pacific at 02:30 UTC on July 9, 2015. At the time, Nangka was the strongest of the storms and was nearing the Northern Mariana Islands, while Chan-hom was intensifying over the Philippine Sea; Linfa was nearing landfall along the Chinese coast.