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A Busy Season for Hurricanes

Both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific basins were unusually active in 2023—and some storms had unpredictable bouts of rapid intensification.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data provided by the TROPICS team. Astronaut photograph of Idalia ISS069-E-084870 was acquired on August 30, 2023, with an Apple camera using a focal length of 1 millimeter. Image of Otis by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Image of sea surface temperatures and Lee by Lauren Dauphin, using GOES 16 imagery courtesy of NOAA and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and data from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) project. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 8, 2023
Data acquired August 30, 2023

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Model
NOAA-20 > VIIRS
Photograph
TROPICS