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  • September 2, 2019, Silver Springs, MD, United States of America: The NOAA GOES-16 satellite showing the catastrophic Hurricane Dorian as it approaches the coast of Florida September 2, 2019 in the Atlantic Ocean. Dorian struck the small island nation as a Category 5 storm with winds of 185 mph. (Credit Image: © Noaa via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, TX, United States - Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it approaches Puerto Rico in the eastern Caribbean as seen from the GOES-16 satellite September 5, 2017. Imra is packing winds of 180-mph making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, Texas, U.S. - Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it approaches Puerto Rico in the eastern Caribbean as seen from the GOES-16 satellite September 5, 2017. Imra is packing winds of 180-mph making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 11, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, United States - Tropical Storm Irma as it makes way over Georgia and into Tennessee after sweeping up the state of Florida as Category 4 Hurricane Irma as shown by the GOES-16 satellite September 11, 2017. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 7, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, United States - Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm is shown approaching the Cuba followed by Hurricane Jose, right, in the eastern Caribbean as seen from the GOES-16 satellite September 7, 2017. Imra is packing winds of 185-mph making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 7, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, United States - Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm is shown approaching the Cuba followed by Hurricane Jose, right, in the eastern Caribbean as seen from the GOES-16 satellite September 7, 2017. Imra is packing winds of 185-mph making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, TX, United States - Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it approaches Puerto Rico in the eastern Caribbean as seen from the GOES-16 satellite September 5, 2017. Imra is packing winds of 180-mph making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 26, 2017 - Gulf Of Mexico, TX, United States - Hurricane Harvey continues to meander slowly inland after hitting the coast of Texas as a category 4 storm seen from the GOES-16 satellite August 26, 2017. The hurricane has weaken but is dropping record amounts of rain causing widespread flooding. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • October 8, 2016 - Atlantic Ocean, United States - View of powerful Hurricane Matthew from the NOAA GOES-east satellite as it heads up the coast past Georgia October 8, 2016 in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm brought tropical storm-force winds, heavy rain, and dangerous surf to the East Coast of the United States. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • October 7, 2016 - Atlantic Ocean, United States - View of powerful Hurricane Matthew from the NOAA GOES-east satellite as it heads up the coast of Florida October 7, 2016 in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm brought tropical storm-force winds, heavy rain, and dangerous surf to the East Coast of the United States. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • October 8, 2016 - Atlantic Ocean, United States - View of powerful Hurricane Matthew from the NOAA GOES-east satellite as it heads up the coast past Georgia October 8, 2016 in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm brought tropical storm-force winds, heavy rain, and dangerous surf to the East Coast of the United States. (Credit Image: © Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Jul 29, 2015 - Space - Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image, taken July 6th from a vantage point one million miles from Earth, was one of the first taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Central Europe is toward the top of the image with the Sahara Desert to the south, showing the Nile River flowing to the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt. The photographic-quality color image was generated by combining three separate images of the entire Earth taken a few minutes apart. (Credit Image: © NASA/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Jul 29, 2015 - Space - Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image, taken July 6th from a vantage point one million miles from Earth, was one of the first taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Central Europe is toward the top of the image with the Sahara Desert to the south, showing the Nile River flowing to the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt. The photographic-quality color image was generated by combining three separate images of the entire Earth taken a few minutes apart. (Credit Image: © NASA/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • August 21, 2019, Amazon Rainforest: From 22,300 miles in space, NOAA's GOES16 captured this image of fires burning in the  Amazon Rainforest today, August 21, 2019. Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change. There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That's more than an 80 percent increase compared with the same period last year. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • July 30, 2015 - SOL SYSTEM Earth -- 30 Jul 2015 -- NASA DSCOVR probe sends back spectacular image of Europe and Africa from space...Africa and most of southern Europe feature in this image of Earth released today by NASA - from a camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image, taken July 6 from a vantage point one million miles from Earth, was one of the first taken by NASA Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Central Europe is toward the top of the image with the Sahara Desert to the south, showing the Nile River flowing to the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt. The photographic-quality color image was generated by combining three separate images of the entire Earth taken a few minutes apart. The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these Earth images. The DSCOVR mission is a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Air Force, with the primary objective to maintain the nation real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA. DSCOVR was launched in February to its planned orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, about one million miles from Earth toward the sun. It from that unique vantage point that the EPIC instrument is acquiring images of the entire sunlit face of Earth. Data from EPIC will be used to measure ozone and aerosol levels in Earth atmosphere, cloud height, vegetation properties and a variety of other features -- Picture by NASA/NASA (Credit Image: © /NASA via ZUMA Press)
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  • September 2, 2019, Bahamas: An image made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Dorian over the Bahamas, approaching Florida Monday. The Category 5 hurricane made landfall in the Bahamas and has caused 'unprecedented' devastation, according to the Prime Minister. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - VIIRS Image. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Oct 10, 2018 - Gulf Coast, Florida, U.S. - A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Michael off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday.  Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico City in the Florida Panhandle as a powerful Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds at 155 mph. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Oct 9, 2018 - Gulf Coast, U.S. - Image of skull in early Oct. 9, 2018, radar view of Hurricane Michael.  (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - VIIRS Image. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - VHRS I-Band image. National Weather Service reported Hurricane Irma had become a Category 5 with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. That means Irma now ranks among the most powerful hurricanes (as measured by windspeed) ever recorded. Florida has declared a statewide emergency in response to Hurricane Irma, as it continues to churn toward the United States. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Oct 10, 2018 - Gulf Coast, Florida, U.S. - A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Michael off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday.  (Credit Image: ? NOAA/ZUMA Wire) (Credit Image: ? NOAA/ZUMA Wire)
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  • Oct 10, 2018 - Florida, U.S. - From 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface, a weather satellite run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captured high-resolution imagery of Hurricane Michael's menacing eye over the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning. The latest report from NOAA's National Hurricane Center indicates winds up to 150 mph are associated with the eye of Michael as it moves onshore to Florida's panhandle. Michael is a Category 4 storm and winds would need to increase to 157 mph for it to reach Category 5. (Credit Image: © NOAA via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 22, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - This visible image of Hurricane Maria was taken from NOAA's GOES East satellite on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 UTC) as it was nearing the Bahamas. (Credit Image: © NOAA GOES Project/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 22, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - On Sept. 22 at 3:18 a.m. EDT (0718 UTC) the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided this thermal image of Hurricane Maria north of Hispaniola and nearing the Bahamas. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA /ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • October 10, 2018 - Florida, U.S. - A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Michael off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday. Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a strong Category 4 storm packs 155 mph winds on Wednesday, causing major damage in many beach towns. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • September 7, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - Hurricane Irma is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone affecting the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico, and threatening Cuba and the Southeastern United States. It is the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Wilma of 2005 in terms of maximum sustained winds, the most intense in terms of pressure since Dean in 2007, and the first of such intensity to make landfall anywhere in the Atlantic since Felix in 2007. Irma is also the first Category 5 hurricane to affect the northern Leeward Islands on record. (Credit Image: © NOAA/via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 4, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - VIIRS. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - VHRS I-Band image. National Weather Service reported Hurricane Irma had become a Category 5 with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. That means Irma now ranks among the most powerful hurricanes (as measured by windspeed) ever recorded. Florida has declared a statewide emergency in response to Hurricane Irma, as it continues to churn toward the United States. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • October 10, 2018 - Florida, U.S. - A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Michael off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday. Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a strong Category 4 storm packs 155 mph winds on Wednesday, causing major damage in many beach towns. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Oct 9, 2018 - Florida, U.S. - Image of skull in early Oct. 9, 2018, radar view of Hurricane Michael.  (Credit Image: ? NOAA/ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 21, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - From Sept. 17 to early Sept. 21, 2017 NASA's IMERG estimated that rainfall totals greater than 10 inches (254 mm) were common along Maria's track. IMERG rainfall estimates indicated that more than 20 inches (512 mm) of rain fell over a large part of Puerto Rico. During that period Maria dropped heavy rain in the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA /ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Projected path before Dominican Republic. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - VIIRS Image. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 1, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Irma Infrared Night. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 1, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 1, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Irma Infrared Suomin. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • August 31, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - National Weather Service reported Hurricane Irma had become a Category 5 with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. That means Irma now ranks among the most powerful hurricanes (as measured by windspeed) ever recorded.Florida has declared a statewide emergency in response to Hurricane Irma, a roiling storm that intensified into 'an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane' while it churned toward the United States. (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Oct 10, 2018 - Gulf Coast, Florida, U.S. - View from the International Space Station of Hurricane Michael as it makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a powerful Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds at 155 mph.  (Credit Image: © NOAA/ZUMA Wire)
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - VIIRS Image. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 5, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Irma Infrared Suomin. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Collage. Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 1, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 6, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean, U.S. - Hurricane Irma intensified into a strong and 'potentially catastrophic' category 5 storm. By definition, category 5 storms deliver maximum sustained winds of at least 157 miles (252 kilometers) per hour. Irma's winds that morning approached 180 miles per hour, the strongest ever measured for an Atlantic hurricane outside of the Gulf of Mexico or north of the Caribbean. (Credit Image: © NOAA/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • This handout photo by the Dutch Department of Defense shows an ariel view of Hurricane Irma damage on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) on September 6, 2017. According to the latest information from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, the category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 150 mph and is expected to make landfall on Florida on Sunday, September 10. Photo by Dutch Department of Defense/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • November can be a stormy month in the Great Lakes region, as it was again in 2015. Toward the middle of the month, a low-pressure system and cold front swept up from the Central Plains and across the lakes. In Detroit, media outlets reported wind gusts as high as 52 miles (84 kilometers) per hour that left 13,000 residents without power. On Lake Erie, gale force winds halted shipping.<br />
Winds were not the only reason ships sought safe anchorage. The high winds created a seiche - a large standing wave that occurs when strong winds and a quick change in atmospheric pressure push water from one end of a body of water to the other, according to NOAA. Seiches occur periodically on Lake Erie. In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a sea wall with deadly consequences. In 2008, Buffalo was flooded by waves that measured 16 feet. That's about the height of the seiche measured by a buoy at the lake's east side on November 12, 2015.<br />
Two weeks after the seiche, its effects were still evident. On November 25, 2015, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this natural-color image of colorful green and tan swirls.<br />
"The seiche stirred up a lot of sediment," said Kevin Czajkowski, a remote-sensing scientist at the University of Toledo. Not all of the colorful swirls are necessarily the result of resuspended sediments. "I wonder if Lake Erie is having a whiting event as well."<br />
Particles of calcium carbonate in the water can cause lightening, or "whiting," of the water. That usually happens in response to changes in the water temperature, or due to increased photosynthesis by phytoplankton and other microscopic marine life.<br />
But Thomas Bridgeman, an environmental scientist at the University of Toledo, agrees that the swirls of color are mostly due to sediments. "Little patterns along the shoreline suggest wind-driven sediment resuspension," he said. "There is an olive-green tint to part of the image that might be a diatom bloom, but I think t
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  • September 8, 2017 - Atlantic Ocean - The NOAA-NASA satellite GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricane Irma passing the eastern end of Cuba. Forecasters say the eye of Irma should move near the north coast of Cuba and the central Bahamas on Friday, Sept. 8 and Saturday, Sept. 9, and be near the Florida Keys and the southern Florida Peninsula Sunday morning. Irma, now a category 4 storm, has maximum sustained winds near 155 mph with higher gusts. Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 hurricane as it approaches Florida. (Credit Image: © Joseph Smith/NASA via ZUMA Wire)
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