09.02.08 - High Point Of The Season Proves To Be Active!
As Gustav becomes a tropical depression all eyes turn now to an extremely busy Atlantic region. As high time has come upon us for the hurricane season, storms develop across the Atlantic region just north of the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone). As of 11:00 am EST we have 3 named storms st...
  
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09.02.08 - MergedIR Animation Shows the Atlantic Storms Movement
An animation created using the Merged IR data which is a Globally-merged (60N-60S) pixel-resolution IR brightness temperature data (equivalent blackbody temps), merged from all available geostationary satellites (GOES-8/10, METEOSAT-7/5 & GMS). The data is available by ftp from the GES DISC (ht...
  
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09.01.08 - Gustav Makes Landfall and a New Storm Forms!
Hurricane Gustav makes Landfall this morning as a category 2 storm in Cocodrie, Louisiana. At around 11:00 am EST, Hurricane Gustav is continuely moving Northwest at 15 mph with a wind speed of 110 mph.The storm is located around 29.2 N, 90.8 W, with a pressure of 957 mb.
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08.31.08 - Gustav Gets Closer to Land
As of this evening, around 10:54 pm EST, Hurricane Gustav is continuely moving towards the Louisiana coast at 16 mph in a NW direction with a wind speed of 115 mph and is located around 27.3 N, 88.1 W. It has increased slightly in pressure to 954 mb and the storm is starting to slow down as is ...
  
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08.28.08 - Tropical Storm Gustav Threatens Coast and New Storm Gets Named Hanna
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Gustav increased movement to the West slightly to 5mph maintaining wind speed of 70 mph and is located around 17.9 N, 76.2 W. Gustav is expected to soon reach hurricane strength again once it begins movement over the warmer gulf waters. As it...
  
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08.21.08 - Fay Slowly Moves, Dumping Rain on Florida
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Fay increased wind speeds slightly to 60 mph and is located around 29.4 N, 80.8 W. The system is moving ever so slowly to the West/Northwest back to dumping more precipitation on the East and central area's of Florida. Tropical Strom Fay is m...
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08.20.08 - Where will Fay go?
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Fay was maintaining wind speeds of 50 mph located around 28.6N 80.6 W. Still over Florida, evident by the image seen below, Fay had been dumping much less precipitation on Florida as the days previous. Most of the rainfall now falls to the No...
  
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08.19.08 - Slow moving Tropical Storm Fay brings heavy rain to Florida
Tropical Storm Fay made landfall in Florida on Tuesday. The TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) shows that the slowing moving storm is bringing heavy rain to southern Florida. The tropical storm will bring the much needed rain in severe drought areas in Georgia and Alabama accord...
 
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07.25.08 - Hurricane Dolly Dumps Rain on Texas!
Hurricane Dolly reached landfall over Texas on Wednesday and moved in the Northwest-West direction. The storm seemed to move slowly as it was approaching land, almost decreasing its speed by half and rapidly weakened to a tropical storm shortly after landfall. The storm has continued on a path ...
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07.25.08 - A-Train Data Depot Shows Hurricane Dolly
The Atlantic hurricane season started early in 2008, with the tropical storm Arthur recorded on May 31. A-Train shows the cross section of Arthur as seen by CloudSAT in Google Earth. By July 20, Dolly was the forth tropical storm, and it developed into a hurricane of category 2 on July 23, just...
 
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