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Hurricane
Lili
strengthed
as
it
passed
over
the
Gulf
of
Mexico
and
headed
towards
the
U.S.
coast.
It
was
reclassified
as
a
Category
4
hurricane,
with
sustained
winds
of
135
mph.
The
storm
is
projected
to
make
landfall
tomorrow
in
the
same
part
of
Louisianna
that
Tropical
Storm
Isidore
dumped
over
20
inches
of
rain
just
one
week
ago.
Evacuation
orders
have
been
issued
to
nearly
a
half-million
people
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This is the rain structure of Hurricane Lili with all of the clouds removed on October 2, 2002. Yellow denotes areas of rain with 0.5 inches of rain per hour, Green denotes areas of 1.0 inches of rain per hour and Red shows areas with more than 2.0 inches of rain per hour -
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This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
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Volcano activity from 1960 through 1995 on a rotating globe. Active volcanoes are shown as red triangles, with brightness denoting the activity level. -
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Hurricane Hernan located 625 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Hernan has maximum sustained winds of 130 knots with gusts to 160 knots. The overall structure of the storm is shown in this animation with rain amounts being shown through color.Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.
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Peel away the clouds to reveal Hurricane Hernans rain structure. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain per hour, green is 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red is 2.0 or higher. -
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This
visualization
shows
wind
vectors
for
Hurricane
Erin
on
September
10,
2001.
Wind
direction
and
speed
are
represented
by
the
direction
and
speed
of
moving
arrows,
respectively.
This
animation
represents
a
single
measurement
taken
by
the
SeaWinds
instrument
on
the
QuikSCAT
satellite,
taken
at
14:27:00
UTC
on
September
10,
2001.
The
WMS
version
of
this
animation
which
is
available
through
the
SVS
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Hurricane Erin was positioned off the coast of the United States on September 10, 2001. This animation shows the strength and direction of wind by animating small arrows. Faster-moving arrows represent stronger winds. -
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Tropical Storm Gustav brought 74 mph wind gusts to the Outer Banks on September 9, 2002. The storm was upgraded to a hurricane on September 11 as it headed toward the Canadian Maritimes.
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The rain structure of Tropical Storm Gustav: grey is 0.5 inches of rain, green is 1.0 inches of rain, and red is 2.0 inches of rain or more per hour -
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Flying over the Mississippi River.
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Post flood Mississippi; Flying over the Mississippi River. -
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Tropical Storm Kenna passes 365 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. It has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph. The rain structure is shown in this animation.
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Peel Away the clouds to see the structure. Light blue shows at least 1.0 inch of rain. Green represents at least 1.7 inches of rain. Yellow is areas with over 2.0 inches of rain fell per hour, and red depicts more than 2.0 inches of rain per hour. -
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This animation zooms down to TRMMs view of Hurricane Ivan on September 13, 2004. It looks underneath of the storms clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and Red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour.
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TRMMs view of Hurricane Ivan on September 13, 2004. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and Red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour. -
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Zooming into Southern CAlifornia, showing smoke plumes as ssen by SeaWiFS on October 5, 1998
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Zooming into Southern CAlifornia, showing smoke plumes as ssen by SeaWiFS on October 5, 1998 -
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September 16th, 1999 Hurricane Floyd slams into the Carolinas.
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A view of the east coast of the United States from SeaWiFS on September 16, 1999, showing Hurricane Floyd -
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