News tagged with tropical depression
NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts
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Nov 09, 2009 |
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NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Ida and captured her rainfall when she passed by Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize this weekend. TRMM data revealed ...
Tropical Depression Neki nulled by cool waters and wind shear
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Two ingredients that don't mix well with tropical cyclones are waters cooler than 80 degrees Fahrenheit and wind shear. Those two ingredients were added into Tropical Depression Neki's mix late yesterday, ...
Baja California residents watching for Hurricane Rick
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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Based on computer forecast models, the residents of southern and central Baja California should prepare over the weekend for now Tropical Storm Rick. Rick formed late yesterday, October 15, and is expected ...
NASA satellite reveals a depressed and disorganized Henri
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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Depression happens to everyone, even tropical storms, and Henri is now tropically depressed. NASA satellite imagery has confirmed he's weakened to a tropical depression and he is further expected to degenerate ...
The Philippines may finally get a break from Tropical Depression Parma
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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The Philippines can't seem to get rid of what is now a deadly and annoying Tropical Depression Parma, but forecasters are now providing hope.
It's a boy? Tropical Depression 18-E forms in the Eastern North Pacific
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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At 11 a.m. EDT on October first, the eighteenth tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was born. He's a little guy, but is likely going to grow up to be a tropical storm and get the name ...
Come together, right now... tropical depression 18W dissipates, Parma intensifies
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Two tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific are keeping in tune to the 1969 hit song by the Beatles, "Come Together." Tropical Depression 18W and Tropical Storm Parma are already beginning to merge now that ...
NASA's infrared satellite images reveal Ketsana's deadly western Pacific march
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Typhoon Ketsana during its lifetime and captured infrared imagery on a daily basis. The images showed high, cold, thunderstorm cloud tops (purple) as cold as -63F, as they dumped ...
When it comes to hurricanes, what's in a name?
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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With three months left in the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, storm watchers can be sure that there will not be another Hurricane Katrina, or Rita, or Wilma this year, or ever again.
NASA's satellite imagery sees Hilda hit a wall
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Aug 27, 2009 |
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Two days ago, Hilda was in prime shape to strengthen further as she tracked westward, far south of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, as a result of winds and cooler waters, she's weakened to a tropical depression, ...
NASA's A-Train of satellites 'on track' with hurricane research
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Aug 20, 2009 |
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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. There are also other satellites ...
Tropical Storm Claudette makes landfall in Florida, moving into Mississippi
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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By mid-day today, Monday, August 17, Claudette's center had moved into southwestern Alabama and weakened into a tropical depression. She'll turn toward the north-northwest later today and soak Alabama with ...
Ana's path being mapped by NASA Satellites; she's drenching Puerto Rico
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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Tropical Depression Ana is currently drenching Puerto Rico, and tropical storm watches are posted for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as Ana continues westward. Both the Aqua and GOES satellites have captured ...
2 NASA satellites capture Hurricane Bill's 'baby pictures'
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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Bill was the third tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, behind Ana and Tropical Depression One. Over the weekend Bill grew into the first hurricane in the Atlantic this season. Two NASA ...
Tropical depression 2 on shaky ground, 3 other areas to watch on weekend
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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The Atlantic Ocean's second Tropical Depression has been on shaky ground since it formed early in the week of August 11. It meandered westward from the African coast and maintained its tropical depression ...
