There’s a difference between ‘no regard to the article’ (your words) and ‘reasonable inferences from the article’.
Equally there’s a difference between ‘random guesses’ and ‘musings of someone who did something similar in a previous life’ on an open Internet forum.
The picture only contains one Typhoon and my random guess with no regard to the article is that it didn’t go alone. I think we used to call them ‘formations’.
Thank you for the Paveway nibble.