English: This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 22 April 2021 at 01:44 UTC, shows Typhoon Surigae (known as Typhoon Bising in the Philippines) in the Pacific Ocean, hovering between the Philippines and Taiwan. Surigae is the first typhoon of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season. Its strength has been determined to be equivalent to a Category 5 major hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, and it took the typhoon only 36 hours to reach maximum winds of 305 km/h and a minimum barometric pressure of 888 hPa, an extremely low value for a tropical system. Surigae has become the most intense typhoon ever recorded in the month of April and the first tropical cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere to reach a barometric pressure below 900 hPa before the first of May, beating the previous record of 935 hPa, set by Typhoon Maysak in 2015. Data derived from images acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission enable improvements in the scientific understanding of the composition of the atmosphere and provide essential information for climate studies and weather forecasting.