NASA’s 2013 HS3 mission will investigate whether Saharan dust and its associated warm and dry air, known as the Saharan Air Layer favors or suppresses the development of tropical cyclones.
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Tropical Storm Yagi is not expected to make landfall in Japan, but NASA satellite imagery showed that the storm was just south of the big island.
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Towering thunderstorms are a sign of a strong tropical cyclone, and NASA’s TRMM satellite spotted thunderstorms reaching heights of almost 9 miles high within Tropical Storm Andrea.
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NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over low pressure System 91L in the Gulf of Mexico and captured infrared imagery that revealed a lot of uplift and strong thunderstorms in the eastern part of the storm despite a poorly organized circulation.
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Two NASA satellites revealed strength within Tropical Storm Barbara as it heads toward a landfall in southwestern Mexico on May 29.
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NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of System 92E as it continues to develop near to southwestern Mexico.
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Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was named.
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NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen’s rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16.
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The Hurricane Season of the Eastern Pacific Ocean officially begins today, May 15 and the first tropical depression of the season formed.
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Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is projected to track north through the Bay of Bengal and make landfall later this week.
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