Hurricane Dean tracked from space

This Envisat MERIS image of Hurricane Dean was acquired on 19 August 2007 (14:52 UTC) and shows the storm passing off the South coast of Haiti. At the time of image acquisition, Dean was a Category-4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, with winds at 230 km per hr. The MERIS image is in Reduced Resolution mode with a spatial resolution of 1200 metres. Credits: ESA