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Tropical Storm Hanna
On August 28, 2008, the eighth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season got underway in the Caribbean Sea. Hanna made landfall on the East Coast as a tropical storm on September 6.
Event Date: 2008-09-02 00:00:00
Number of Images: 4
Topic: Severe Storms
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Hurricane Ike
Between the last week of August and the first week of September 2008, the Atlantic Ocean queued up a series of tropical storms. Ike became a large storm that raked over Cuba and targeted the Texas coast.
Event Date: 2008-09-02 00:00:00
Number of Images: 14
Topic: Severe Storms
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Carbon Monoxide over Africa
Carbon monoxide concentrations across Africa between August 25 and September 1, 2008, were elevated from widespread agricultural burning and wildfires.
Event Date: 2008-09-01 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Dust & Smoke
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Storm-Churned waters off Cuba
Gustav may have spared the United States from the destruction that many feared, but it hit Cuba hard.
Event Date: 2008-08-30 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Unique Imagery
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Fire in the Kalahari
A large fire was burning near the western border of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana in late August 2008.
Event Date: 2008-08-29 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Fires
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Fires in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa
In late August and early September 2008, widespread fires in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa poured smoke out of the Indian Ocean.
Event Date: 2008-08-26 00:00:00
Number of Images: 4
Topic: Fires
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Hurricane Gustav
Gustav formed off the coast of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea on August 25, 2008.
Event Date: 2008-08-26 00:00:00
Number of Images: 8
Topic: Severe Storms
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Fires in Central South America
Hundreds of agricultural or land-clearing fires were burning in central South America on August 26, 2008.
Event Date: 2008-08-26 00:00:00
Number of Images: 1
Topic: Fires
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Dust near Cyprus
Dust blew off the coast of Turkey toward the island of Cyprus in late August 2008.
Event Date: 2008-08-25 00:00:00
Number of Images: 2
Topic: Dust & Smoke
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Monsoon Floods in Northeast India
Monsoon rains regularly swell rivers in northern India, but in 2008, the Kosi, a tributary of the Ganges and a major river in its own right, did something different. It burst through its banks to flow into a channel it had abandoned more than 200 years ago.
Event Date: 2008-08-24 00:00:00
Number of Images: 2
Topic: Floods
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