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Hurricane Joaquin

Forecasters expected the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season to follow a trajectory away from the U.S. East Coast, but large amounts of precipitation could not be ruled out.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using CloudSat FirstLook data provided courtesy of the CloudSat team at Colorado State University and Aqua MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). NASA Terra MODIS image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 3, 2015
Data acquired September 29 - October 2, 2015

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
CloudSat > CPR
Terra > MODIS