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Cabo Verde Hit by First Hurricane in a Century

Unusually warm waters off western Africa provided fuel for a storm to progress from tropical depression to tropical storm to hurricane in a day.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Cabo Verde Hit by First Hurricane in a Century.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

Published September 2, 2015
Data acquired August 31, 2015