An area of low pressure east of the Bahamas has now powered up into Tropical Storm Danny, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured his strengthening thunderstorms in infrared imagery.
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An area of low pressure east of the Bahamas has now powered up into Tropical Storm Danny, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured his strengthening thunderstorms in infrared imagery.
Tropical Storm Hilda is hanging on to tropical storm force winds, and continues to track south of the Hawaiian Islands.
The remnants from Typhoon Vamco are sweeping over Alaska's Aleutian Island chain today and tomorrow, and high wind warnings have been posted by the National Weather Service.
Hurricane Bill drenched eastern Canada on his sweep by yesterday, August 24, bringing heavy rains to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
NASA has released a video of Hurricane Bill today from the GOES-14 satellite. The video was put together from a series of still frames taken by the satellite using both infrared and visible imagery and provides different views of Hurricane Bill on August 20.
NASA has several satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track. They're called the "A-Train" and one of the things they study is tropical cyclones.
After a rather slow start, the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season has seen a sudden surge in activity with the rapid emergence of three named storms.
Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan on August 7 and later China on August 10, 2009, bringing an enormous amount of rain that caused massive flooding, devastating mudslides, and loss of life.
In July 2009, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center reported that ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific had shifted into El Niño—anomalously warm—conditions.
GOES-14 shows first image.
Using Jason-2 altimetry data, NASA scientists are closely monitoring the recent Pacific El Niño warming.
To view the archive of hurricanes from 2009 and earlier years, click this link.
NASA has developed several educational tools including posters, graphics, and classroom activities on hurricanes.