The first typhoon Nepartak jumped right to the top of the category scale. Typhoon Nepartak developed into a gigantic Category 5 Super Typhoon before making landfall in Taiwan.
Japan's National Institute of Informatics has compiled a series of images from Japan's Himawari-8 satellite. It recorded typhoon Nepartak right from the start as a tropical depression on July 2 until it developed over 3 days into a storm with 175 mph winds.
See below how this powerful storm formed and swirled into a typhoon. Check the bright white bubbles, that appear to be boiling up from the ocean. These are powerful thunderstorms racing to the top of the troposphere as the storm develops and eventually the storm begins to spin into the tell-tale typhoon with a strong eye wall and deep eye:
