Hurricane Frances approaches

August 31 - Sept. 2, - Time-lapse satellite imagery shows Hurricane Frances bearing down on the Bahamas Islands and the eastern coast of Florida. (QuickTime movie, 9.1 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

August 11-14, 2004 - Hurricane Charley develops and strikes hard at the southeastern U.S. (QuickTime movie, 28 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

August 9-14, 2004 - Southeast soaked by frontal system, Bonnie, and Charley. (QuickTime movie, 1.6 MB)

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Credit: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

October 7, 2003 - Hurricane Larry rainfall totals (QuickTime movie, 300 KB)

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Credit: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

September 17-19, 2003 - This TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows rainfall totals along the path of Hurricane Isabel for the period 17-19 September 2003. (QuickTime movie, 1.6 MB)

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Credit: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

September 18, 2003 - This animation, generated with data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder experiment on NASA’s Aqua spacecraft, depicts changes in the temperature of Hurricane Isabel as the storm moved across the Atlantic Ocean from September 6-18, 2003. (MPG movie, 4.6 MB)

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Credit: Image and animation courtesy Vincent J. Realmuto, NASA JPL; caption, NASA's Earth Observatory

September 10-19, 2003 - This digitally enhanced movie of Hurricane Isabel was made by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen of the NASA-GSFC Visualization Analysis Lab. The animation combines NOAA's operational cloud images from GOES-EAST (the Imager instrument) with historical color backgrounds from NASA's Terra satellite (the MODIS instrument) during the day, and from the Air Force's DMSP satellite (the OLS instrument) at night. The GOES visible images are used during the day, and the thermal infrared images are used at night, with digital blending at the sunrise/sunset terminator. The low warm clouds in the eye of the hurricane are not noticeable at night, being nearly the same temperature as the sea surface. The animation is somewhat irregular in time because the GOES satellite does not take pictures at constant time-intervals. (QuickTime movie, 24 MB)

Credit, animations and caption: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

September 18, 2003 - Hurricane Isabel comes ashore between Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. (QuickTime movie, 2.5 MB)

Credit: Animations by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

September 12, 2003 - Hurricane Isabel (category 5) in the Atlantic Ocean. Movie is made from occasional bursts of 8 images at one-minute intervals. Notice the mesocale swirls in the eye, particularly the 5-armed "starfish" cloud formation at the beginning of the sequence. (QuickTime movie, 9.6 MB)

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Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

August 10, 2003 - Typhoon Etau sweeps over Japan (rainfall spread) (QuickTime movie, 3.2 MB)

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Credit: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

July 15, 2003 - Hurricane Caludette drenches Texas. (QuickTime movie, 4.1 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

July, 2003 - Tropical Storm Bill rainfall pattern over Southeastern U.S. (QuickTime movie, 2.1 MB)

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Credit: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

June 30, 2003 - Tropical Storm Bill makes landfall in Louisiana. (QuickTime movie, 4.5 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

Oct. 24-25, 2002 - Hurricane Kenna churns near the Baha Peninsula. (QuickTime movie, 5.0 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

Sept. 27 - Oct. 4, 2002 - Hurricane Lili swirls in the Gulf of Mexico. (QuickTime movie, 9.6 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

Sept. 20-27, 2002 - Hurricane Isidore razes the Carribean, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the U.S. Gulf Coast. (QuickTime movie, 11.0 MB)

Credit: NASA-GSFC, data from NOAA GOES

August 20, 2001 - Typhoon Pabuk, as seen from Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-105. The typhoon, the fourteenth in the Pacific in the 2001 season, had peak sustained winds of 115 mph as it barreled through the Eastern Pacific Ocean and towards southeast Japan. Pabuk spread over hundreds of miles in this view, filmed as Shuttle Discovery was flying overhead at a rate of five miles per second. (Real Video movie, 1.15 MB)

Credit: NASA/JSC

August 19, 2001 - This video taken during STS-105 shows Tropical Storm Chantal located just beyond Cuba. The Florida peninsula is also shown as well as the Bahamas. The video ends with a view of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Quicktime movie, 6.05 MB)

Credit: NASA/JSC

August 5-6, 2001 - Tropical Storm Barry makes landfall over the Gulf Coast. The storm fell a few mph shy of being an official hurricane, despite a great many impulsive outbreaks just before it came ashore in the Florida panhandle. The visible and infrared images from GOES-8 were enhanced and blended, and placed on top of a color map to make a two day animation. (Quicktime movie, 4.2 MB)

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-RSD

June, 2001 - Hurricane Allison's development over the Southern United States (Quicktime movie, 13.6 MB)

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-RSD

Hurricane Luis from GOES-9 at one-minute interval scans (MPEG movie, 3.7 MB)

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-RSD

September 23, 1998 - Microwave imager measures sea surface temperature through clouds. In this scene, clouds have been made translucent to allow an unobstructed view of the surface. Notice Hurricane Bonnie approaching the Carolina Coast (upper left) and Hurricane Danielle following roughly in its path (lower right). The ocean surface has been falsely colored to show a map of water temperature--dark blues are around 750F, light blues are about 800F, greens are about 850F, and yellows are roughly 900F. (Quicktime movie, 6.1 MB)

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Credit: Courtesy TRMM Project, Remote Sensing Systems, and Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

August, 1997 - Morphed movie of Hurricane Guillermo (Quicktime movie, 3.3 MB)

The animations of GOES-9 data show explosive convection in Hurricane Guillermo. The images were taken August 2, 1997 and show the hurricane in the eastern Pacific. NOAA research aircraft were in the eye at about the same time.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-RSD; Mark Sutton and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen

September, 1995 - Hurricane Marilyn (Quicktime movie, 8.6 MB)

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-RSD

July, 1995 - Thunderstorms over Florida from GOES-9 visible, 1 minute between frames (MPEG movie, 4.9 MB)

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-RSD

Hurricane Enrique (MPEG movie, 924 KB)

Credit: NASA/JSC