The Atlantic Ocean was queuing up a series of tropical storms in september. After Gustav which had displaced millions in New Oleans, and Hanna drenching the Bahamas, the next storm in the queue, Tropical Storm Ike, made its way westward on…

Hurricane Gustav experienced remarkable strengthening in the past 24 hours, going from a tropical storm to a category 4/borderline 5 monster storm.  The eye has passed over Cuba, and the storm will be moving over warm waters of the southern…

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While tropical storm Gustav is threating to strengthen and move into the Gulf coast somewhere between Texas and Florida early next week, Tropical storm Hanna…

Hurricane Dolly came ashore on July 23 as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of about 160 kilometers per hour brought noticeable changes to the Texas coastline. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top…

Hurricane Elida was formed in the Eastern Pacific ocean off the Central American coast on July 12, 2008. Elida reached a peak strength of Category Two, with sustained winds of 165 kilometers per hour (105 miles per hour), according to Unisys…

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This series of images taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite chronicles the development and decay of the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Bertha. TRMM (a joint mission between NASA and…

The 2008 Hurricane Season has officially begun in the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. According to NASA Earth Observatory, thunderstorms over the Pacific Ocean about 250 miles southwest of Nicaragua became Tropical Storm Alma on May 29: the first named storm of the 2008…

The death toll from Burma’s devastating cyclone has now risen to more than 22,000 (BBC). Another 41,000 are missing three days after Cyclone Nargis hit the country, causing a huge tidal surge to sweep inland, according to state radio. The…