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Hurricane Emily: Natural Hazards |
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by NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Hurricane Emily is shown here in the Carribbean north of |
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Venezuela on July 14, 2005. The image was captured by the |
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Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
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modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on the aqua.nasa.gov/ Aqua |
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satellite at 17:20 UTC (13:20 Eastern Daylight Time). At |
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this time, it was a well developed and powerful hurricane |
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with winds over 150 kilometers an hour (85 knots). It |
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passed through the chain of islands known as the Windward |
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Islands, causing one death in the city of St. George's on |
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Grenada. It is building up towards a Category 4 |
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hurricane, the second strongest storm on the Saffir- |
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Simpson intensity scale. Projections take it glancing off |
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Jamaica, striking the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and |
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continuing across into the Gulf of Mexico to make |
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landfall again somewhere near Brownsville, Texas on the |
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border with Mexico and the United States. |
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Predicting hurricane strength and intensity is |
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challenging, and Emily might be either stronger or weaker |
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than expected, and it may not stay on its predicted |
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course. The hurricane has already become somewhat |
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stronger than first anticipated. |
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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, |
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using data obtained from the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
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MODIS Rapid Response team. |
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Date Published: 2011-07-26 22:36:43 |
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Identifier: emily_amo_14jul05 |
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Item Size: 4488111 |
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Language: eng |
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Media Type: image |
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# Topics |
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What -- Aqua |
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What -- Earth |
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Where -- Venezuela |
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Where -- Grenada |
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Where -- Jamaica |
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Where -- Gulf of Mexico |
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Where -- Texas |
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Where -- United States of America |
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