A Rare Tropical Storm in the South Atlantic

Akará is only the third such storm recorded in the region since 2015.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Rare Tropical Storm in the South Atlantic.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published February 20, 2024
Data acquired February 19, 2024